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Press Room - Coverage
SurvivetheDrive - Press Room - Coverage
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 Press Release
Connecticut Scores Poorly on Driver Safety; Crashes and Fatalities
By Bob Green, Director, SurvivetheDrive.org
1/20/2012 |
 Between the Lines
by Shelley Krohnengold, Challenge Editor CVR PCA (Connecticut Valley Region Porsche Club of America) Magazine
12/31/2011 |
 Survive the Drive exhibit dates coming up
Stop by our booths for information on how you can help Survive the Drive educate our teens on driver safety and pick up your free bracelet at Lime Rock Parks "Modifieds" on Sept. 16th and 17th. http://www.limerock.com/index.php and at the Fairfield County Concours d'Elegance on Sunday the 18th http://www.fairfieldcountyconcours.com/
9/11/2011 |
 Safe Routes "Back to School"
CT Department of Transportation News Release 8/26/2100
Click on link for Back to School road safety http://www.ct.gov/dot/cwp/view.asp?A=1373&Q=485200
8/30/2011 |
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Press Release
Connecticut Scores Poorly on Driver Safety; Crashes and Fatalities
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Connecticut has scored poorly on several recently released safety indicators of our states drivers. These show that drivers in Connecticut, more than the other states, face increased danger of other drivers errors, or their own. Hartford, the Insurance Capital of the World", where insurance is the region's major industry, scores particularly poorly. Recently published studies show that in 2010, the 5.4 million U.S. car crashes, costs total $230 billion, with 2.25 million persons requiring medical attention and with 33,000 violently killed. Connecticut did the worst.
In addition, the most recent study, the 2011 -Allstate, Americas Best Drivers Report ranks Americas 193 largest cities in terms of car collision frequency. Allstate rated Hartford and Bridgeport as among the worst. Hartford weighed in at #187 and Bridgeport at #173.
The second tally, from Decembers National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Research Note (NHTSA) -2010 Motor Vehicle Crashes: Overview indicates between 2009 and 2010, Connecticut had the greatest increase in the number of fatalities among all of the states, going up 95 fatalities or 42%.
Indicators are also that Connecticuts recently enacted Graduated Drivers Licensing laws that regulate, restrict and supervise our 16 and 17 year-old drivers has succeeded in keeping them more harmless at that age. However, Connecticut is experiencing a proportional increase for the teens of voting age. Novice adult and teens 18 19 years old are not subject to the Graduated Drivers Licensing restrictions.
In addition, the recent buzz in government circles and among the driving public is the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended ban on the use of all electronic distractions while driving. To some folks, this is government regulation gone over the top. Has been recognized that it isnt this cyber-equipment that is doing the crashing, its the folks using it. And these folks choices, excusing themselves to attend to what isnt driving while behind the wheel was termed as riding an unguided missile by U. S. Secretary of Transportation, Roy LaHood. Attending to electronic distractions has now been proven as the cause of massive and tragic carnage. Proposed regulations may be enacted in a manner similar to the preventive laws on DUI and the required use of seatbelts.
The U. S. Center for Disease Control has, in recent years, recognized the health threat of car crashes as a non-medically-preventable hazard and the leading cause of violence; injury and death in the U. S.. This was preceded by resolutions by the United Nations and World Health Organization that recognized the global health threat that car crashes cause. Although the U.S is the most mobile population, many countries are, per capita, much safer places to drive. We drive the most, but not the best at it. And Connecticut ranks most poorly.
In Connecticut, advocates for highway safety are a discouraged lot. Past investigations of driving school fraud and the implications of DMV complicity failed to recognize the fraudulent educational values that licensed thousands of young drivers over several decades. The jail time our former governor served shows, perhaps only the tip of the iceberg. During investigative questioning, one former DMV official pled the Fifth Amendment to avoid implicating himself in these practices.
These are indicators that Connecticut has a job to do licensing and regulating its drivers, more thoroughly and comprehensively. The culture of behavior on Connecticuts roadways and in the government departments, enforcement and legislation need attention and improvement . . . The Connecticut DMVs website logo highlights the word Safety. When you go into a DMV office, thats not what youll see happening.
But then, you cant see the crashes from there.
Source reference - http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811552.pdf
By Bob Green, Director, SurvivetheDrive.org
1/20/2012 |
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