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Safety Through Partnerships

Safety Through Partnerships. Southeastern Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths. Dodge County Board Presentation October 12, 2010. TZD Regional Champions. Nelrae Succio Mn/DOT – District 6 Lt. Randy Slinger Minnesota State Patrol Kristine Hernandez SE MN TZD Coordinator Laura Turek

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Safety Through Partnerships

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  1. Safety ThroughPartnerships Southeastern Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths Dodge County Board Presentation October 12, 2010

  2. TZD Regional Champions • Nelrae Succio • Mn/DOT – District 6 • Lt. Randy Slinger • Minnesota State Patrol • Kristine Hernandez • SE MN TZD Coordinator • Laura Turek • DPS Office of Traffic Safety

  3. Toward Zero Deaths or Vision Zero Minnesota, along with Utah, Washington and West Virginia were earlier adopters

  4. SE 2006 - 2009 Region Fatalities By County

  5. SE 2006-2008Percentage of Fatalities and Severe Injuries Alcohol-Related

  6. Old Approach • State roads • Focus in high crash locations • Reactive projects • Silos of safety

  7. New Approach • All Roads • Proactive and Systematic • All Four Es (Education, Enforcement, Engineering and Emergency Medical Services)

  8. Develop Southeast TZD • Regional Steering Committee • Partnership Groups (4 Es) • Regional Law Enforcement • Health Educators • City, County and Mn/DOT Engineers • Emergency Medical Services • Organized first regional workshop • (June 20, 2005)

  9. Regional TZD Steering Committee Regional Traffic Safety Community Regional Leadership Team Regional Structure TZD Statewide Leadership Team • Regional TZD Steering Committee • Leadership Team • One or two interested representatives per county • Good representation of each discipline • Engineering • Law enforcement • Education (health and traffic) • Emergency Services Mn/DOT Regional TZD Coordinator • Regional Leadership Team • Co-Chairs: • District Engineer • MSP District Captain • Staff: • Regional TZD Coordinator • Members: • Engineering • Law enforcement • Health education • Emergency Services • Role: • Develop Strategic Plan • Establish Subcommittees • Monitor progress • Evaluate program

  10. Analyze the Data • Who? • Young: 15-29 year-old male drivers • When is it happening? • 3-6 p.m. – after work/school • June-July • Contributing factors • Run off the Road • Speed • Seat belt use

  11. Set Goals • Goal 1: Reduce traffic fatalities from past 3-year average of 67 down to 55 by 2012 • Look at contributing factors in crashes • Goal 2: Increase TZD awareness across southeastern Minnesota

  12. Establish Subcommittees • Run off the Road • Seat Belts • Speed • TZD awareness • SE MN TZD annual workshop

  13. Engineering Efforts • First application made for an 11-county comprehensive highway safety plan grant for curve delineators • (2005-06) • $1+ million multi-county HSIP grant for • replacement of twist-end guardrail & • other safety improvements (2006-07) • Other County safety improvements: • rumble stripes • extra wide edge lines • enhanced reflective signage

  14. Engineering Efforts (cont.) Local and State Roads • Centerline and Edgeline Rumble StripEs and Strips • Wet Reflective Pavement Markings • Wider Pavement Markings • Curve Delineation (Chevron Signs) • Cable Median Edge Treatments Intersection Improvements • Local and State Roads • Rural Intersection Lighting • Improvement Signing (Larger, Brighter) • Turn Lanes, Acceleration Lanes, Roundabouts • Intersection Warning Systems/other ITS

  15. Education Efforts • Hired fulltime TZD regional coordinator to provide regional “air cover • TZD “On the Road” presentations • Legislative education efforts • SE MN TZD video • & tip sheet

  16. Education & Engineering Efforts • Southeast Minnesota • Belt Use Observation Survey (2006-10)

  17. 2010-11 SE MN TZD Safe Communities Fillmore Goodhue Mower Olmsted Rice Winona

  18. Emergency Efforts • Emergency personnel included in SE Minnesota TZD video • Auto-launch utilization of EMS helicopters • Freeborn County reciprocity response agreement between “jaws of life” operators in neighboring areas (including Iowa) for faster response time

  19. Enforcement Efforts • Pursuits & Partnerships • Jointly plan Thanksgiving and December wave; coordinate enforcement dates • December high school education program • Kick-off media event at local high school • Dying to Get Home • education & enforcement • campaign (3 saturations)

  20. Enforcement & Education Efforts • May Mobilization Regional News Conference • & • July Speed • Wave Poster • (4th year)

  21. Enforcement & Education Efforts • 2010 Ted Foss Move Over Law news conference • Labor Day weekend DWI enforcement news conference

  22. TZD Success Factors • Commitment to change American culture regarding traffic safety • Collaboration with other traffic-safety advocates • Promote best practices and lessons learned

  23. Minnesota TZD Websitehttp://www.minnesotatzd.org

  24. Goal: Zero Deaths

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