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Summit to cover latest trends in traffic safety

Nearly 200 safety professionals and law enforcement officials from throughout Idaho will learn more about the latest trends in traffic safety Wednesday (April 11) during the Idaho 2007 Highway Safety Summit.

Seat belt coalition
to meet Tuesday

The public is invited to a meeting of the Idaho Seat Belt Coalition Tuesday (April 10) at 7 p.m. in the Delamar Room at the Doubletree-Riverside in Boise.

Set to be discussed are an assessment of where the coalition stands in efforts to achieve 100 percent seat belt use in Idaho, plans for growing the coalition and its message, and funding.

The summit is sponsored by the ITD’s Office of Highway Operations and Safety and will be at the Doubletree-Riverside Hotel in Boise, 2900 Chinden Blvd. The program runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The educational event will focus on the national trends in traffic safety and offers participants additional tools for promoting and enforcing community traffic safety laws.

Participants will include representatives from the Idaho State Police, county sheriffs’ offices and local police departments as well as other agencies and organizations involved in safety issues.

Program highlights include:

  • Motor vehicle crash expert Rob Kaufman, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Seattle, will talk about how seat belts and airbags really save lives.
  • Injury Prevention liaison Max Sevareid, also with Harborview, will show the costs of unbuckled motor vehicle crash occupants and the importance of enforcement
  • Dr. Mary F. Holley, founder and director of Mothers Against Methamphetamine, will discuss her book “Crystal Meth: They Call it Ice” and the drug’s implications for the future.
  • Strategies for reducing impaired driving will be presented by Jared Olson, Idaho’s first Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor (TSRP).
  • A report from the Idaho Seat Belt Coalition, a review of Idaho’s highway safety mobilizations, a federal perspective on Idaho traffic safety and analysis of the state’s motor vehicle crash statistics also will be presented.

“The safety summit ITD sponsors each year provides Idaho’s highway safety professionals with the latest information, best tools and innovative strategies for reducing crashes and saving lives,” said conference organizer Margaret Goertz, with OHOS.

Each day, six Idahoans are either killed or seriously injured in traffic crashes. Society pays 85 percent of the medical costs for individuals involved in crashes. These costs are passed on to the public through higher insurance premiums, taxes and increased charges for medical services.

Published 4-6-07