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Blue County

• Community Traffic Safety Meeting
• July XX, 2008

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Meeting Agenda

• Introductions
• Highway safety overview at the national and state
  level
• Blue County Crash Statistics
• SHSP and TZD efforts in MN
• Local safety initiatives
• Blue County Highway Department
• Local Law Enforcement
• Emergency Medical Services
• Education, Safe Communities, others present
• Summary and conclusions
• Next steps

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National Perspective

• The U.S. roadway system's positive trends have
  plateaued
• The number of annual roadway fatalities had
  remained virtually unchanged (40,000-42,000)
• In 2006, 42,642 people died in motor vehicle
  traffic crashes
• An average of 119 people died each day in motor
  vehicle crashes one every 12 minutes.
• Economic impact of traffic crashes (2000)
  230.6 billion

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Highway Safety in Minnesota

• In 2006
• 78,745 total traffic crashes reported
• 494 people died
• 35,025 people injured
• 1.5 billion estimated cost

• On an average day
• 216 crashes
• 1.4 deaths
• 96 people injured
• 4,190,169 daily cost

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2006 Minnesota crashes

• 944 bicycle crashes
• 915 pedestrian crashes
• One-third of all crashes involved one vehicle
• 1 of every 3 fatalities was lt 25 years of age
• 1 of every 11 fatalities was a SUV occupant
• 2 of 3 fatalities occurred in rural areas (lt
  5,000 pop.)

Source MN 2006 Crash Facts
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Contributing factors in MN crashes

• Speed
• Failure to wear seat belts
• Drinking and driving
• Driver inattention
• Inexperienced younger drivers

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State of Minnesota

• Minnesota Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)
• Toward Zero Deaths Program (TZD)

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Minnesota Strategic Highway Safety Plan

• The MN SHSP is a cooperative effort by the MN
  Departments of Transportation and Public Safety
• VISION To reduce fatal and life changing
  crashes on Minnesota roadways by aggressively
  implementing systematic and proactive safety
  strategies with an ultimate goal of moving Toward
  Zero Deaths

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Five Critical Emphasis Areas

• Increasing Seat Belt Use and Reducing Impaired
  Driving
• Improving the Design and Operation of Highway
  Intersections
• Lane Departure
• Reducing Head-On and Across Median Crashes
• Keeping Vehicles on the Roadway
• Minimizing the Consequence of Leaving the Roadway
• Young Drivers and Curbing Aggressive Driving
• Increasing Driver Safety Awareness, and Improving
  Information and Decision Support Systems

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Critical Strategies (Four Es)

• Engineering
• Enforcement
• Education
• Emergency medical response and care

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15 Critical Strategies

• Engineering
• Cost-effective safety improvements for lane
  departure and intersection crashes
• Assist local agencies in implementation of
  cost-effective improvements
• Maintenance of roadway facilities, roadside
  hardware, and removing hazardous objects
• Roadway Safety Audits at network level
• Enforcement
• Adequate resources to perform traffic enforcement
• Statewide primary seat belt law
• Automated enforcement (cameras) for red-light
  running and aggressive driving
• Stricter graduated licensing system
• Cooperation between courts and law enforcement to
  prevent reduced/eliminated charges
• Sobriety saturations and targeted enforcement
• Education
• Communications and marketing task force to raise
  public awareness
• Revise and enhance driver education
• Emergency Medical Response and Care
• Implement a statewide Trauma System
• Administrative
• Establish a Governors Traffic Safety panel

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Toward Zero Deaths (TZD)

• VISION
• To reduce fatalities and injuries on
  Minnesotas roads to zero.
• MISSION
• To move the State of Minnesota toward zero
  traffic deaths on our roads through the
  application of engineering, enforcement,
  education, emergency services, research
  activities and community involvement.

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Blue County Crash Profile

• Purpose
• Analysis of crashes for five year period to
  identify locations with greater than expected
  numbers of fatal and injury crashes and to better
  understand the causes of and the solutions to
  these crashes
• Compare Blue County crash statistics to Minnesota
  State averages

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Cost of Motor Vehicle Crashes20XX Blue County
Insert specific Blue County Data from DPS Crash
Facts Report
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Crash Analysis

• Who is involved in these crashes?
• (M/F, age groups)
• What types of crashes are occurring?
• Fatal/Injury, ROR/Intersection/Rear end
• When are the crashes occurring?
• Time of day, day of week, monthly trend
• Where are crashes occurring?
• Road types or locations
• Why are crashes occurring?
• Known contributing factors (speed, alcohol,
  belts, inattentiveness)

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County Engineer

• Discuss safety initiatives

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Each discipline discuss safety initiatives

• Enforcement
• Emergency medical response and care
• Education - Safe community efforts or high school
  drivers education
• Local officials
• Others

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Discussion

• Is there a way we can work better together to
  improve traffic safety in our community?
• Next steps?

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Share Contact Information

• Thank you.