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March 2020

2020 Kentucky Lifesavers Conference

June 2-4, 2020

Galt House Hotel

Louisville, Kentucky

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's mission is to provide a safe, efficient, environmentally sound and fiscally responsible transportation system that delivers economic opportunity and enhances the quality of life in Kentucky.

The purpose of the conference is to prevent deaths and injuries on Kentucky’s roadways by bringing together a combination of education, emergency services, enforcement, engineering, and transportation safety warriors to share best practices, research, and innovations that are proven to work. The conference will provide information on both successful programs and emerging issues to individuals and also provide opportunities for networking, discussion, and information sharing.

Conference Overview

Monday, June 1

Pre-Conference Training (Optional)

Tuesday, June 2

Registration Open & Vendor Move-in

Governor's Executive Committee on Highway Safety Meeting

Opening General Session

Breakout Sessions

Vendor Reception

Wednesday, June 3

Continental Breakfast with Vendors

Breakout Sessions

Lunch with Vendors

Breakout Sessions

Thursday, June 4

Continental Breakfast

Breakout Sessions

Closing General Session

Join us at the Galt House Hotel, Louisville's Only Waterfront Hotel.

You’re right in the heart of downtown and just minutes from several happening Louisville attractions, including the KFC Yum! Center, Fourth Street Live!, Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, Actors Theatre, the Muhammad Ali Center, and Museum Rows — some of which are connected to the Galt House Hotel by pedway.

For more information and to register for this conference, please visit our event page below:

Kentucky Lifesavers Conference

Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving

March 17, 2020

If you’re heading out to a St. Patrick’s Day celebration, make sure you have more than just the luck o’ the Irish on your side. These celebrations are one of the biggest drinking nights of the year, and this, unfortunately, means more drunk drivers on the roads. Drunk driving accounts for nearly one-third of vehicle-related fatalities in the United States. This St. Patrick’s Day weekend, remember: Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving. If you plan to go out and enjoy the evening with alcohol, make sure you refrain from driving.

Saint Patrick’s Day is one of the deadliest festivities on our nation’s roads. During the 2014-2018 St. Patrick’s Day, 249 lives were lost due to drunk-driving crashes. In 2018 alone, 73 people were killed in drunk-driving crashes on St. Patrick’s Day. These accounted for 39% of all traffic fatalities during the St. Patrick’s Day festive period.

For more information, please visit the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration .

REAL IDs are available at KYTC headquarters in Frankfort for all Kentucky residents

Kentucky residents with a driver’s license, permit or identification card may visit the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's driver’s license office in Frankfort (200 Mero Street) to apply for a REAL ID-compliant version if they would like to continue to use a state-issued credential for air travel and restricted federal facility entry once REAL ID requirements take effect Oct. 1, 2020.

REAL IDs are accepted for U.S. commercial air travel, military base entry and access into federal buildings that require ID once federal REAL ID enforcement begins Oct. 1, 2020. Current driver's licenses with the Kentucky Unbridled Spirit logo or language "NOT FOR REAL ID PURPOSES" will no longer be accepted for those purposes starting Oct. 1, 2020.

The KYTC driver's license office is open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Only debit and credit cards are accepted (no cash or check). Office staff are not equipped to serve applicants who require testing or re-testing. More information here .

Kids Speaking Up For Road Safety

Elementary School Distracted Driving Lesson Plans

We all know that distracted driving is a terrible problem in our communities. No one likes it when the driver in the next car to them drives distracted, but despite that, many of us still drive distracted. More than 50% of high school and middle school students say that their moms and dads routinely drive distracted. A recent study published in the Journal, Pediatrics, found that 47 % of parent and caregiver drivers of 4 to 10 year-olds talked on the phone while holding it in their hands, 33% read texts and 26% sent text messages. All of this occurred while the car was moving with their child in the car.

So, our children are being exposed to an increased crash risk by distracted drivers, and parents and caregivers are sending the message to their kids that using our phones while driving is okay. Clearly something needs to be done to protect our children and we cannot wait until they begin to drive.

“Kids Speaking Up For Road Safety” was created by End Distracted Driving.org and Safe Roads Alliance, two of the leading organizations devoted to distracted driving educational initiatives in the country. Working with educators, child psychologists, elementary school curriculum developers, SEL experts and traffic safety professionals, lesson plans were created to help keep our children safe now, and to create a generation of students who will not use their smartphones when they get their licenses. The lesson plans were developed to provide teachers with everything they need to give 30-45 minute lessons that are interactive and developmentally appropriate.

Here is a link to a TV news segment with one of the creators, Joel Feldman of End DD.org, that gives an overview of the program: TV news interview

We hope that you will allow us to help you keep your students and their families safer.

Here is a link to a Power Point that provides more details about the lesson plans with links to the video/animations: Power Point Presentation

The Kentucky Chapter of the American Public Works Association

is having a Golf Scramble at Weissinger Hills in Shelbyville.

Please complete the registration form below:

GOLF SCRAMBLE

Sign Retroreflectivity

is coming back this Spring!

Signs are considered essential to communicating regulatory, warning, and guidance information. It is critical that signs are able to fulfill this role during both daytime and nighttime periods. The ability of a sign to fulfill its role during nighttime periods is provided by a unique form of reflection known as "retroreflectivity." Various methods can be used within an agency's sign management processes to meet and maintain a minimum retroreflectivity requirement for traffic signs.

This course will review retroreflectivity requirements and the MUTCD, as well as give basic sign types and obstructions to understand retroreflectivity.