Target Zero: Washingtons Strategic Highway Safety Plan

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Target Zero Washingtons Strategic Highway
Safety Plan
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The Target Zero Vision

• Eliminate all Traffic Deaths and Disabling
  Injuries on Washington Roads by The Year 2030.

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Governor Gregoires Priorities for Washington
Washingtons Strategic Highway Safety Plan
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Governor Gregoires Priorities for Washington
Washingtons Strategic Highway Safety Plan
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Implementation Recommended
Implementation Required
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Putting Target Zero to Work!
Structure Personnel
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Putting Target Zero to Work!
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Key Elements of Target Zero

• Many partners
• Data Based
• State goals and priorities
• Proven strategies

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Determining Target Zero Priorities

• Analyze the data.
• Target areas where investments will provide the
  greatest safety benefits.
• Group priority areas into four levels, with
  priority 1 the most critical.

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Target Zero is Data Driven!
Too late 4 Seatbelt
Unsafe
Kinda Safe
Real Safe
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2007
2030
1832
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Source Lind Madill, 2007
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Why do People get Hurt or Die in Traffic Crashes?

• Over 80 of traffic deaths result from behavioral
  errors.
• In Washington, 4 out of every 5 traffic deaths
  involve impairment, speed, or non-belt use or
  some combination of the three factors.

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Priority One

• Impaired Driving
• Speed

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Proven Impaired Driving Strategies

• Explore options that would allow sobriety
  checkpoints in Washington.
• Increase the use of ignition interlocks

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Sobriety Checkpoints

• State Supreme Court said no in Seattle v. Mesiani
  in 1988
• Justice Dolliver concurred but said the decision
  might have been different if certain factors were
  considered
• Amount of officer discretion
• Notice to public
• The vehicle selection process, etc.

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Proven Impaired Driving Strategies

• High-visibility enforcement.
• DUI courts.
• Brief Intervention screening.
• Apply the community task force and corridor
  safety models to decrease impaired driving.
• Drug Recognition Program (DRE)

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A high Tide Floats All Boats
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• Strategic Highway Safety Plan
• Target Zero www.wtsc.wa.gov

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Impaired Driving in Washington StateHow are We
Doing?
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Steve LindWashington Traffic Safety Commission

• 360-753-6538
• slind_at_wtsc.wa.gov
• www.wtsc.wa.gov