150,000 deaths per year

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from Intentional Unintentional Injuries Annually

• 150,000 deaths per year
• 2,850,000 hospitalizations
• 325 billion cost to society
• American culture accepts traffic deaths/injuries
  as routine

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DEATHS HOSPITALIZATIONS due to TRAUMA
Assault 11.1
Self-inflicted 9.1
Falls 9.1
Bicyclist 6.1
Fires/Burns 6.1
Motorcyclist 6.1
Struck by Object 7.1
Pedestrian 12.1
All Others 7.1
Motor Vehicle Occupant 23.3
TOTAL 50
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• Crashes cost society 150 Billion annually -- OF
  THAT AMOUNT
• 17 Billion is medical costs
• 37.5 Billion is employer costs
• 54.7 Billion is lost productivity

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• One murder every 31 minutes
• One violent crime every 20 seconds
• One crime every 3 seconds

• One fatality every 13 minutes
• One injury every 16 seconds
• One crash every 5 seconds

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• Safe Communities is a process, not a program.
• Safe Communities is a coalition centered, data
  driven injury prevention model.
• Safe Communities emphasizes motor vehicle crashes
  as a leading injury prevention issue.

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• Safe Communities looks at transportation injuries
  and their costs.
• Safe Communities is most successful when the
  coalition involves new partners in the process.
• Safe Communities is geographic-based and involves
  local citizens.

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• First used as an injury prevention model by the
  World Health Organization in 1989
• Adopted by NHTSA to address traffic related
  injuries in 1995
• Nearly 1,000 Safe Communities coalitions exist
  nationwide

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• Injuries are not accidents.
• Injuries are predictable and preventable.
• Local people are in the best position to solve
  local problems.
• Every community has effective organizations
  working to prevent injuries.

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Form a core community coalition Create a
community profile Examine local injury
data Prioritize injury problems using
data Organize coalition with subcommittees Identif
y/implement prevention strategies Measure
impact and cost benefit
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• Identify and recruit stakeholders
• Find host or lead organization
• Appoint Safe Communities Coordinator
• Enlist keepers of the data
• Recruit injury data expert
• Identify meeting times places

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• Demographics (age, ethnic background, gender)
• Roadway user behavioral data
• Environmental data
• Citizen Community Leader Input

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• Emergency department
• Hospital discharge
• Emergency run report
• Police crash reports
• Trauma registry

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• Significant contributor to fatal and nonfatal
  injuries
• Significant contributor to health care costs
• Disproportionately affects specific population
  groups
• Major concern of community residents

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• transportation
• insurance companies
• law enforcement
• businesses
• hospitals/physicians
• public health

• schools colleges
• traffic safety groups
• EMS
• citizen advocates
• military bases
• civic clubs

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• Enforcement strategies
• Enact laws or policies
• Education/awareness strategies
• Engineering and technology improvements
• Evaluating results

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• Red light running
• Alcohol impaired driving
• Pedestrian collisions
• Non seat belt use
• Non or misuse of child car seats
• Speeding or aggressive drivers
• Inexperienced drivers
• Distracted drivers

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• Number of injuries
• Hospital costs
• Emergency room visits
• Behavioral change
• Local policies or ordinances
• Community attitudes
• Community resources

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• Providence RI
• 23 reduction in motor vehicle-related emergency
  visits by children under 18
• 48 reduction in bike-related trauma
• 26 reduction in physician billings

• Dallas TX
• 13 reduction in injury crashes among Hispanic
  populations
• 470K savings in hospital costs

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• Derry NH
• teen fatalities dropped from 9 to none per year
• teen belt use increased by 30

• Palm Beach County FL
• bicycle injuries decreased from 2.5 to .5 per
  month
• average hospital costs decreased from 400 to
  175 per injury

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