Safety

Don't Talk or Text While Driving!

This is a powerful reminder of how dangerous it is to talk or text while driving. The video is about 15 minutes long, but it could save your life or the lives of those you love.

Click here to watch the video.

Click here to view the 2009 Traffic Safety Culture Index:
http://www.aaafoundation.org/pdf/2009TSCIndexFS.pdf

The current Safety Compass Newsletter Issue is available online at:
http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/newsletter/safetycompass/index.htm

The current Roadway Safety Foundation E-Reporter online newsletter is available online at:
http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/rsf/issues/2009-08-14.html

IIHS produces a series of fact sheets summarizing the FARS data released by NHTSA each year. These fact sheets cover a variety of topics in Highway Safety, including Motorcycles. The fact sheets for 2007 are now available on the IIHS website:
http://www.iihs.org/research/fatality_facts_2007/default.html

Researchers in the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety (CERS) have mapped out every fatality in the nation with details on each death, so now you can see the "dead man's curve" on your commute or the "devil's triangle" in your backyard.

Short video highlights basic crash-related statistics and shows the importance of identifying and providing solutions for local road safety.

The Rural Highway Safety Clearinghouse was announced June 30, 2008 by the USDOT Deputy Secretary. The Clearinghouse website is located at: http://www.ruralsafety.umn.edu/clearinghouse/index.html, and is a project of the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety at the University of Minnesota (CERS). The newsletter for the Center for Excellece in Rural Safety is the Rural Safety News. Click here to view the newsletter.

Use the Safety Training Resource Database (STRD) to search for safety and work zone professional development resources – both those that are currently offered and those that have been offered in the past. The STRD is a project of the Federal Highway Administration Office of Safety and an important tool offered by the Roadway Safety Professional Capacity Building Program (RSPCB). The new National Transportation Training Resources (NTTR) database will include the STRD data, as well as coordinate with the new LTAP clearinghouse training database.

See http://rspcb.safety.fhwa.dot.gov/

2007 Traffic Safety Fact Sheets

The currently available 2007 Traffic Safety Facts Sheets are listed below. These fact sheets contain the 2007 FARS ARF and 2006 Final FARS data. Other fact sheets will be available shortly.

Overview Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (DOT-HS-810-993)
Alcohol-Impaired Driving Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (DOT-HS-810-985)
Bicyclists and Other Cyclists (DOT-HS-810-986)
Children Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (DOT-HS-810-987)
Large Trucks Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (DOT-HS-810-989)
Motorcycles Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (DOT-HS-810-990)
Occupant Protection Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (DOT-HS-810-991)
Older Population Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (DOT-HS-810-992)
Pedestrians Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (DOT-HS-810-994)
School Transportation-Related Crashes Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (DOT-HS-810-997)
Speeding Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (DOT-HS-811-998) 1/9/2009
State Alcohol-Impaired Driving Estimates (DOT-HS-810-999)
Young Drivers Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (DOT-HS-811-001)