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PRESENTS
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In the simplest terms, safety can be defined as the absence of risk or
danger. Focusing this term to address transportation, road safety can
be characterized by the ability of a person to travel freely without
injury or death. A perfectly safe transportation system would not
experience crashes between various road users. Though absence of
all crashes is an optimal condition, and many transportation agencies
have a goal of zero deaths on the road, the reality is that people
continue to get injured or killed on streets and highways across the
nation. The challenge posed to the road safety field is to minimize the
frequency of crashes and the resulting deaths and injuries using all
currently available tools, knowledge, and technology. This challenge
is made more complex due to the multitude of factors influencing
safety, from infrastructure to vehicle design to human behavior.
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CONCERNS
● PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION published a “SAFETY EDUCATION AND
SUCCESSES” pedestrian awareness crosswalk education report in 2015. In
2015 there were 590 vehicle collisions involving a fatality in the State of
Oklahoma, in which 643 persons lost their lives, compared to 669 fatalities
from 589 fatal crashes in 2014.
● While these numbers represent an improvement in lives lost from 2014, they
represent a needless loss of life. More significant, is the fact that of those 669
deaths, 170 resulted from crashes involving a driver having a blood alcohol
level of .08 or more, an increase from 152 in 2014. [1]
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CONCERNS
● PACE TULSA AGS FOUNDATION found a need to continue public transportation
safety policy efforts. It is possible to better identify the causational factors of
senseless traffic fatalities and remove impaired drivers from our roadways. In
response to a heightened traffic law efficacy, the Oklahoma Governor's
Impaired Driving Prevention Advisory Council was created in 2013.
● The Oklahoma Governor's Impaired Driving Prevention Advisory Council
charged with making recommendations to the Governor's office established
extensive outreach to the Native American community
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CONCERNS
● hosting a breakout session specific to tribal efforts bringing impaired driving
awareness to the annual OHSO Highway Safety Forum and participation in the
annual TTAP Conference.
● The increase in the observed statewide seat belt use rate from 83.6% in 2013
to 86.3% in 2014 did not continue into 2015, with the 2015 survey reflecting a
use rate of 84.4%3. The good news is that the 2016 survey again reflected an
increase to 86.6%, representing the highest use rate since the passage of the
primary seat belt law in 1997; however, the Oklahoma rate is still less than the
national rate of 90.3%.
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GOALS:
● Now, let’s look forward 6 years to newly released traffic fatalities data. In
2021, two years ago, United States Department of Transportation (USDOT)
unveiled the National Roadway Safety Strategy resources plan.
● The U.S. President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Laws includes critical steps to
help reverse devastating pedestrian crosswalk intersection accident/ fatalities
trend ending with saving lives on our roadways.
● Jurisdictions with stronger seat belt enforcement laws continue to exhibit
generally higher use rates than those with weaker laws. a +1.6% USE RATE
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ACCORDING TO OKLAHOMA PEDESTRIAN LAW
Drivers are supposed to stop or yield to Pedestrians whether they're in a
marked crosswalk or not. While pedestrians are supposed to enter a
crosswalk with both eyes open to proceed with caution. There's definitely a
shared responsibility. This issue does not get a lot of air-time. However, it is
a problem that is easily fixed. It should not take a major catastrophe or
another pedestrian tragedy to spur supporter action.
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ACCORDING TO OKLAHOMA D.U.I. LAW & SEATBELT LAWS
● 2014 Oklahoma Statutes Title 47. Motor Vehicles §47-11-902. Persons
under the influence of alcohol or other intoxicating substance or
combination thereof - Receive Penalty - Enhancement.
● Oklahoma law requires drivers and front-seat passengers to wear seat
belts. In the back seat, children up to 8 years old must use a car seat or
booster seat unless they’re a certain height.
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law places a strong emphasis on
improving safety and the new Safe Streets and Roads for All program to
include:
● Complete Streets policies and standards; requires updates to the Manual on
Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which defines speeds, lane markings, traffic
lights and more on most roads in the country; and sharply increases funding
for the Highway Safety Improvement Program, which helps states adopt data-
driven approaches to making roads safer.
● A road that was nominally safe when it was first opened to traffic may
become nominally unsafe when the roadway design standards change.
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● NHTSA released $740 million in funding for the 402 State and
Community Grant Program, Section 405 National Priority Safety
Program and Section 1906 Racial Profiling Data Collection Grants.
● States are encouraged to use the funding to implement programs
to address gaps and opportunities identified during the technical
assistance effort, expand partnerships, and focus on risky-
driving, as well as, safety concerns among vulnerable road users
and over-represented populations.
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Preliminary data reported by the Federal Highway
Administration show that vehicle miles traveled in
2021 increased by about 325 billion miles, or about
11.2%, as compared to 2020.
● Data estimates show the fatality rate for 2021 was 1.33 fatalities per
100 million VMT, marginally down from 1.34 fatalities in 2020. While
the fatality rate continued to rise in the first quarter, it declined in the
other three quarters of 2021, compared to 2020.
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FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES
● The historical and long-term objective safety of a location based on
crash data is known as substantive safety. A particular intersection
that has experienced fewer than expected crashes over an extended
period will be referred to as a substantively safe location, while a
corridor with a higher than expected number of crashes is
substantively unsafe. Unlike nominal safety, substantive safety
operates on a continuum and allows for a range of explanations as
to why a particular safety problem exists.
● Crash outcomes can be measured by the types of injuries sustained
to the people involved in the crash, typically categorized by fatalities
and injury severity.

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FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES(CONT’D)
● In addition to the measures described above, safety professionals
can use surrogate measures, such as conflicts (near misses),
avoidance maneuvers, and the time to collision if no evasive action
is taken, to determine the level of safety risk and identify specific
problems.
● Safety perception impacts road user decisions but is not easily
understood by looking at crash data. Safety professionals can use
surveys, driving simulators, and other modern technologies to
understand the safety perception of road users.
● Using professional judgement to prioritize safety improvements and
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● select appropriate designs within a range of options, based on
observations of road user behavior and other available data, will
increase the chance that all factors are considered.
Examples of Road Safety Decisions and Trade-offs
● Improving safety as mobility, efficient movements, environmental
concerns, public-health, and economy offers policy-makers new
designs and technologies to advance safety goals.
● Roundabouts: Bicycle Helmet Requirements: Red Light Cameras:
Protected Left Turns: Rumble Strips: Trees and Landscaping:
Traffic Signal Installation: Access Management: Left turns
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FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES(CONT’D)

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[1] FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES (RESTRAINED)
[2] UNRESTRAINED FATALITIES AND OPERATOR .08 OR MORE BAC
FATALITIES.

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In the above table the estimated percentages of fatally injured
passenger vehicle drivers with BACs at or above 0.08 percent are
shown only for the states highlighted in which BAC reporting for
fatally injured drivers was 70 percent or higher. Estimated
percentages are based on known BAC when available and imputed
BAC for the remaining drivers.

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