The Oklahoma Governor's Impaired Driving Prevention Advisory Council charged with making recommendations to the Governor's office established extensive outreach to the Native American community, hosting a breakout session specific to tribal efforts bringing impaired driving awareness to the annual OHSO Highway Safety Forum and participation in the annual TTAP Conference.
Now, let’s look forward 6 years to newly released traffic fatalities data. In 2021, two years ago, United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) unveiled the National Roadway Safety Strategy resources plan. The U.S. President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Laws includes critical steps to help reverse devastating pedestrian crosswalk intersection accident/ fatalities trend ending with saving lives on our roadways.
4. In the simplest terms, safety can be defined as the absence of risk or
danger. Focusing this term to address transportation, road safety can
be characterized by the ability of a person to travel freely without
injury or death. A perfectly safe transportation system would not
experience crashes between various road users. Though absence of
all crashes is an optimal condition, and many transportation agencies
have a goal of zero deaths on the road, the reality is that people
continue to get injured or killed on streets and highways across the
nation. The challenge posed to the road safety field is to minimize the
frequency of crashes and the resulting deaths and injuries using all
currently available tools, knowledge, and technology. This challenge
is made more complex due to the multitude of factors influencing
safety, from infrastructure to vehicle design to human behavior.
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● NHTSA released $740 million in funding for the 402 State and
Community Grant Program, Section 405 National Priority Safety
Program and Section 1906 Racial Profiling Data Collection Grants.
● States are encouraged to use the funding to implement programs
to address gaps and opportunities identified during the technical
assistance effort, expand partnerships, and focus on risky-
driving, as well as, safety concerns among vulnerable road users
and over-represented populations.
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (cont’d)
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FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES
● The historical and long-term objective safety of a location based on
crash data is known as substantive safety. A particular intersection
that has experienced fewer than expected crashes over an extended
period will be referred to as a substantively safe location, while a
corridor with a higher than expected number of crashes is
substantively unsafe. Unlike nominal safety, substantive safety
operates on a continuum and allows for a range of explanations as
to why a particular safety problem exists.
● Crash outcomes can be measured by the types of injuries sustained
to the people involved in the crash, typically categorized by fatalities
and injury severity.
16. FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES(CONT’D)
● In addition to the measures described above, safety professionals
can use surrogate measures, such as conflicts (near misses),
avoidance maneuvers, and the time to collision if no evasive action
is taken, to determine the level of safety risk and identify specific
problems.
● Safety perception impacts road user decisions but is not easily
understood by looking at crash data. Safety professionals can use
surveys, driving simulators, and other modern technologies to
understand the safety perception of road users.
● Using professional judgement to prioritize safety improvements and
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17. ● select appropriate designs within a range of options, based on
observations of road user behavior and other available data, will
increase the chance that all factors are considered.
Examples of Road Safety Decisions and Trade-offs
● Improving safety as mobility, efficient movements, environmental
concerns, public-health, and economy offers policy-makers new
designs and technologies to advance safety goals.
● Roundabouts: Bicycle Helmet Requirements: Red Light Cameras:
Protected Left Turns: Rumble Strips: Trees and Landscaping:
Traffic Signal Installation: Access Management: Left turns
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FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES(CONT’D)
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[1] FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES (RESTRAINED)
[2] UNRESTRAINED FATALITIES AND OPERATOR .08 OR MORE BAC
FATALITIES.
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In the above table the estimated percentages of fatally injured
passenger vehicle drivers with BACs at or above 0.08 percent are
shown only for the states highlighted in which BAC reporting for
fatally injured drivers was 70 percent or higher. Estimated
percentages are based on known BAC when available and imputed
BAC for the remaining drivers.
20. PLEASE STAY IN THE LOOP WITH PACE TULSA
NETWORK. WE HOST FORUMS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY
CAMPAIGNS EACH MONTH THROUGHOUT THE
YEAR. YOUR PARTICIPATION IS 100% FREE. PACE
TULSA NETWORK AND IT’S AFFILIATE PARTNERS
NEVER CHARGE MONEY FOR YOU TO TAKE PART IN
YOUR OWN ENVIRONMENTAL SAFE SPACE
SECURITY. HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON. – PTN'
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