The Safety Solution is Local and Personal !!!

The Safety Solution is Local and Personal !!!

Business of Saving Lives

The Safety Problem Is Global

The Problem – Tomorrow

77 will be injured in a crash during their lifetimes…some more than once.

Of every 100 children born this year…

One will die violently

in a highway crash during

his/her lifetime.

February 20, 2007

Strategic Highway Safety Plan

A Strategic Highway Safety Plan …

• Starts with the Planning Process.

• Provides a comprehensive, coordinated, continuing, communicative, focused, and unified approach.

Integrated

• Integrates the 4 E’s

– Education

– Engineering

– Enforcement

– Emergency Services

Why

• Leverage resources.• Additional funding sources.• Powerful funding request tool.• Make safety efforts more

effective and efficient.• Make the task easier.• Support legislative initiatives. • Reduce fatalities and injuries.

In Consultation with

• Governor’s Highway Safety Office

• Regional planning and MPO’s

• Major Modes of Transportation

• State and Local Law Enforcement

• Highway/Grade-Crossing Safety

• Operation Lifesaver• Motor Carrier Safety• Department of

Motor Vehicles

Other Major Safety Stakeholders

• Public Health Agencies• Medical Community• Emergency Response• Highway Industry• Railroad Industry• Insurance Industry• Hospitality Industry• Motorcycle Community

• Judiciary • Tribal Governments• Academia• Civic Organizations• Safety Advocates• State and Local

Agencies

Goals

• AASHTO/GHSA/ AAMVA/USDOT: 1.0 fatalities per 100 MVMT by 2008

• “Target zero”

• Reasonable and attainable …. with a little stretch •To reduce the fatality rate from 2.29 in

2005 to 1.5 in 2010, resulting in 42 fewer deaths. (186 to 144 deaths)

The What Contributing Factors US South Dakota

• Roadway Departure 60 % 67% *

• BAC Related 39 % 44% *

• Belt Use 82% 69% *

• Unrestrained 52% 71% *

• Intersections 21 % 20%

• Pedestrian 11 % 5%

• Work Zone 3% 3%

• Young Drivers (16-24) 24 % 22%

• Older Drivers (65+) 15% 12%

Gateways to Information

• Website for collecting and disseminating information on program development and effectiveness, and in-depth technical background; maintain currency of knowledge base.

• Printed Guides for developing programs to address fatal crashes

South Dakota’s Emphasis Areas

• Improving Data Collection and Analysis

• Impaired Drivers

• Run-off- Road and Head-on

• Speeding

• Young Drivers Education

• Occupant Protection

• Preventing deer-auto collision

• Emergency Response System

Contributions• Serve as Champion• Lead/support the effort • Convene a Summit• Build upon existing partnerships and

coalitions• Help form and enhance coalitions• Bring other safety partners to the table• Keep the safety partners focused• Provide and analyze data

Contributions• Establish and support the 4E emphasis

teams

• Hold the safety partners accountable

• Keep the momentum

• Share expertise and knowledge– Coalition Building

– Data Analyses

– Goal Setting

– Performance Measures

– Problem ID

– Identifying Strategies

– Evaluation

Challenges• Language and culture• Turf and Funds• Silos

• Organizational Structures

• Approaches to the problem

• Commitment, Determination,

Perseverance

On the Journey to Save Lives