Strategic Highway Safety Plan Focus Area

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Strategic Highway Safety PlanFocus Area
5-Improve Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety

• Florida
  Traffic Ed Program

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Florida DOT Strategic Highway Safety Plan Focus
Area 5

• Strategy 3 Implement a comprehensive
  pedestrian and bicycle traffic safety education
  component in at least 3 elementary and/or middle
  schools per year in each district.

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Fatalities and reported injuries amongchildren
5-14 years old, 1997-2001

• State of Florida

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State Level Support Money Commitment

• FDOT- Florida Traffic Ed Program/mini-grants
• FDOT/ 402/163 grants
• FDOT/CTST Support for projects
• Bike Florida/FBA Share the Road mini-grants
• FDOH, local injury prevention programs
• SAFE KID Coalition, local chapters

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National Organizations with Similar Missions

• Healthy People 2010- Reduce deaths caused by
  unintentional injuries, (especially pedestrian
  and bicycle related)
• National SAFE KIDS Campaign
• Active Living By Design
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention

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Florida Traffic Ed Programs Goal

• Reduce injuries to children from bicycle and
  pedestrian crashes by training them with the
  knowledge and skills needed to be competent and
  safe in traffic.

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Curriculum Programs

• Elementary Teacher Training
• Middle School Training
• BikeN Ped Driver Ed
• Community Workshops

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Elementary Bicycle Safety Training

• Focuses on development of on-bike and pedestrian
  skills, students in K-5, appropriate for physical
  education classes
• 10-hour Teacher Workshop
• is taught in a day and a half

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Middle School Training

• 10-hour workshop for teachers and youth leaders
  of students in grades 6-8
• Curriculum focuses on
• Street wise on-bike skills
• Personal Health
• Bike maintenance
• Community Transportation

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BikeN Ped Driver Ed

• Teacher and student-friendly materials for driver
  education classes
• Focus on responsibilities of motorists to obey
  the laws
• Etiquette of sharing the road safely with
  bicyclists and pedestrians

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Community Workshops

• Emphasizes traffic and bicycle safety skills and
  rules of the road
• 8-hour one day workshop for community leaders
• Teaches how to implement a successful bicycle
  rodeo

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Traffic, Bicycle, Pedestrian Pre Driver Ed
Safety Projectin Duval County Schools
The Traffic, Bicycle, Pedestrian Pre Driver Ed
Safety Project in Duval County Schools
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Duval County Example

• Duval has been able to demonstrate a direct
  correlation between bicycle helmet education/use
  and bicycle injuries to children.

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1996-1999 Duval Co Comparison Correlation of
Bicycle Helmet Usage Rates Bicycle Injuries
Involving a Motor-Vehicle, Fatal Nonfatal for
ages 0-12
IMPACT OUTCOME EVALUATION
Duval County Bicycle Helmet Usage Rate 1996-1999
Duval County Bicycle Injury Rate Involving Motor
Vehicle, Fatal Nonfatal (Per 100,000 Pop.)
1996-1999

Table 1 Shows a 392.8 Increase in Bicycle Helmet
Usage Rate
Table 2 Shows a 34 Decrease in Bicycle Injuries
Involving Motor-Vehicle, Fatal Nonfatal
Sources DCHD/TIPPO Annual Observational Survey
Studies, U.S. Census Bureau FL Department of
Highway Safety and Motor Vehicle (DHSMV) Crash
Data Reporting Agency DCHD /
TIPPO
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Local Issues

• Childhood Injuries (add your local statistics
  below)
• (To Bicycle/Pedestrian)
• In____________County
• 2002 (or most recent information available)

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Existing Programs

• (add information here, if there are programs in
  your area)

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Target Populations and locations

• (add local needs based on crash map locations if
  available)

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Next Steps

• 1. Form a coalition or team to focus on issues of
  child injury prevention and control
• 2. Plot crash locations relative to schools and
  neighborhoods
• 3. Target 3 schools to begin implementation of
  traffic ed program
• 4. Gain support and commitment from School Board
  Principals to implement Traffic Ed Program
• 5. Apply for a 402 grant if needed, see forms
  www.dot.state.fl.us/highwaysafetygrantprogram
  /hsgp/hsgpsample.htm

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Together we can save lives!

• Request Training assistance from Florida Traffic
  and Bicycle Safety Education Program
• Dr. Dan Connaughton, Program Director Jamie
  Humphrey, Assistant Program Director
• http//www.safety.hhp.ufl.edu
• Email safety_at_hhp.ufl.edu
• Phone [phone] Ext. 1370
• Fax [phone]