6/18/2015
Local racer promotes safe-driving campaign for ITD at Thursday (June 18) event
BOISE - Idaho’s Toward Zero Deaths safe-driving campaign gained a new voice calling for more people to wear seat belts and to never
drive impaired or distracted.
Idaho champion racer Wes Morris brought a message of safe
driving, along with his 23T altered race car, to Idaho Transportation Department
Headquarters’ front parking lot today, Thursday, June 18, in Boise.
Joining Morris, who is a 2014 Boise High School graduate, were representatives from ITD’s Office of Highway Safety talking about the leading causes of deaths on state roadways – improper seat belt use, driving impaired and driving distracted.
Click here for a picture of Morris, and here for a picture of Morris in his racer. Click here for a picture of Morris and his car at ITD. Video of Morris talking about properly securing a seat belt is available here. Idaho highway safety statistics are located here.
Learn more about Idaho's Toward Zero Deaths safety effort, the state's 100 deadliest days and seat belt use in Idaho.
Morris lost his sister Dedra in a tragic one-car crash two
years ago when she did not properly secure her seat belt as a passenger and was
partially ejected from a car that left the road and overturned several times,
killing her instantly. He added that had she used her seat belt properly and
had remained seated properly, she would have most likely survived the crash.
“The ‘Toward Zero Deaths’ campaign hits home with me on a very sobering and serious level,” he says. “Through our efforts, if we save one life or keep one family from tragedy, we have done our job.
“If we get one person to think, then we have reached a hundred people and pushed us closer to our goal of zero deaths.”