Traffic Safety Roundup
May 12, 2017 // Volume 2, Issue 5
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Now Happening: UN Road Safety Week until May 14
United Nations calls upon communities worldwide to take the pledge to
"Slow Down, Save Lives"
As the Global Road Safety Week continues until Sunday May 14th, the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety calls governments, cities, international lending institutions like the World Bank, urban and highway designers, and policy leaders to ensure that all roads and streets used by children have traffic speed limits, sidewalks, and crossings that are safe for children. Our vision is a safe and healthy journey to school for every child.
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| UN marks Road Safety Week until May 14. #SlowDown and #SaveLives |
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Next Week:
Click It or Ticket, May 15 to June 4
Download the Louisiana toolkit here.
(Source: LCTS Click It or Ticket 2016)
Louisiana launches Click It or Ticket campaign to save lives
Highway safety professionals and law enforcement officers throughout Louisiana are launching a two-week Click It or Ticket campaign to remind all drivers and passengers to wear their seat belts and to enforce the state's mandatory seat belt law.
State, parish and local law enforcement officers throughout Louisiana will be looking for drivers and passengers who are not buckled up from May 15 through June 4. Louisiana's primary seat belt law states that all occupants in every seat must be properly restrained when a vehicle is in motion. Louisiana law also recently raised the fine for not wearing a seat belt to $50.00.
In 2016, Louisiana reached its all-time high of 87.8% front seat belt compliance rate, with the Lake Charles and Houma regions leading the state at 91.7% and 91.6%, respectively.
Officials from the National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA) encourages everyone to keep community members safe and make sure people are doing the one thing that can save them in a crash: buckling up.
LHSC, LSP and DOTD are collaborating its efforts to promote seat belt use through the statewide Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) and its vision of Destination Zero Deaths. Hundreds of safety stakeholders channel their efforts through the statewide Occupant Protection team, the LA Passenger Safety Task Force and the nine DZD regional safety coalitions across Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Houma, New Orleans, Mandeville, Alexandria, Shreveport, Monroe and Lake Charles. These coalitions work hand in hand with law enforcement agencies to conduct grassroots level events to promote the use of seat belts, with a goal that we reach zero deaths on all roadways.
Louisiana Center for Transportation Safety (LCTS) Director Dortha Cummins, who is also the statewide chairperson of the Occupant Protection Emphasis Area Team for Louisiana's SHSP, shares her call to action: "Let us all help our state continue to increase our seat belt usage rate. It's really a matter of making it a habit to click that belt and get to your destination safely. It's as simple as just clicking that belt and get to your destination safely."
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Louisiana Highway Safety Commission shares this PSA
to remind motorists to #ClickItLA.
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Resources
The Safety Center works closely with the Louisiana DOTD Highway Safety Section in providing research, workforce development and training, technical assistance, and strategy implementation support for the state's Strategic Highway Safety Plan. LCTS maintains a valuable tools & resources section for your convenience.
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