Thanks for All of Your Help in Updating SHSP-2
Featured Speakers
Opening Session Speaker – Dr. Anthony R. Kane (Tony) joined the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) on March 5, 2001, as Director of Engineering and Technical Services. In this capacity he oversees the development of hundreds of technical publications and standards. Dr. Kane has won numerous awards including the AASHTO President’s Special Award of Merit in 2001 and the U.S. Presidential Rank Award for distinguished Service in 1996, Presidential Rank Awards for Meritorious Service in 1985 and 1990 and the 2009 George S. Bartlett Award from AASHTO.
Featured Luncheon Speaker – Jacey Good is a victim/survivor of a horrific distracted driver crash. Her parents, Jay and Jean, were killed, and Jacy was permanently disabled from this crash in 2008. Jacy’s Dad was driving her and her Mom home from Jacy’s Muhlenberg College graduation when a teen driver talking on his cell phone turned in front of a tractor trailer. It swerved to miss him, and slammed full force into Jacy’s parents’ car. Her parents died at the scene, and Jacy was given little chance to survive. Months later Jacy realized that her wonderful parents were killed because of a driver talking on his cell phone, and she also learned that this was not against the law in Pennsylvania. Since then Jacy has made it her mission to share her story and educate people about the dangers of distracted driving. Jacy has appeared on the Oprah show and at the United Nations, and she is featured on US DOT Secretary Ray LaHood’s Faces of Distracted Driving web site. She has also been featured in People and Consumer Reports magazines, and she is a board member of Focus Driven.
Safe Home Alabama Summit Agenda
November 9, 2011
7:00-8:30 Registration and light refreshments
8:30- 9:05 Dan Turner, host - Welcome with Mayor Todd Strange - invited; Mark Bartlett, FHWA AL Division Administrator or John Cooper, Director Alabama Department Of Transportation; Jim Byard, Director ADECA and Governor’s Highway Safety Representative - invited; Colonel Hugh McCall, Director Alabama Department of Public Safety – invited; Dennis Blair, Alabama Department of Public Health, Director, Office of Emergency Response and Trauma
9:05-10:05 Keynote Speaker- Dr Anthony (Tony) Kane, AASHTO Director of Engineering and Technical Services: A Wake-up Call for Highway Safety
Break 10:05-10:20
10:20-11:20 Report out on SHSP I: Dr. Dan Turner, Moderator; An overview and summary of the accomplishments of SHSP I; Run-off Road – Dr. Dan Turner; Risky Driver - Dr. Dave Brown, Center for Advanced Public Safety; Emergency Medical Services ; EMS - Dennis Blair, Alabama Depart ment of Public Health, Director Office of Emergency Response and Trauma; Older & At Risk Driver - Vernon Dolberry, Northeast Alabama Office of Highway Safety -; Legislation - Terry Henderson, ADECA Governor’s Highway Safety Office
11:30-12:50 Luncheon Speaker: Presiding: Mark Bartlett, FHWA AL Division Administrator
Keynote Speaker: Jacy Good - A Distracted Driving Crash Survivor Tells Her Story
1:00 - 2:30 Roll out SHSP II including Toward Zero Fatalities: Don Vaughn, Chief Engineer, Alabama Department of Transportation- moderator; Infra- structure -Tim Barnett, Alabama Department of Transportation State Safety Operations Engineer; Human Behavior - Terry Henderson, ADECA Governor’s Highway Safety Office; EMS -Dennis Blair, Alabama Depart- ment of Public Health, Director Office of Emergency Response and Trauma; Traffic Safety information Systems - Dave Brown, Center for Advanced Public Safety ; Legislation – Waymon Benifield, Alabama Department of Transportation Safety Administrator
2:30-2:45 A new public information and awareness safety program for Alabama – Tony Harris, Bureau Chief, Media and Community Relations Alabama Department of Transportation
Break 2:45-3:00
3:00-4:00 Alabama Strategic Highway Safety Plan II focus area feedback breakout sessions
4:10 to 4:30 – Wrap-up and charge to Alabama safety community: Dan Turner & Governor Robert Bentley - invited
Safe Home Alabama Summit Information
In 2005, the year of the first Safe Home Alabama Traffic Safety Summit, 1,148 people died on Alabama roadways. In 2010 this number was 848, a reduction of 26 percent. That seems like an impressive reduction in fatalities, but the Alabama traffic safety community will not be satisfied until this number is reduced to zero. That’s why Safe Home Alabama III will focus on a philosophy called Toward Zero Deaths.
If you wanted to join the race Toward Zero Deaths on the roadways of Alabama, Safe Home Alabama III provided that opportunity. Things that worked from the first Alabama Strategic Highway Safety plan were presented as well as the content of the draft second edition of the Alabama Strategic Highway Safety plan, which focuses on areas of infrastructure, human behavior, emergency medical services, traffic safety information systems and legislation. Safe Home Alabama III also featured breakout sessions that provided feedback for the focus areas of the second edition of the Alabama Strategic Highway Safety plan, and the opportunity to network with your peer traffic safety professionals. It also rolled out the new Alabama public information and awareness campaign that embraces the movement Toward Zero Deaths.
The primary goals of Safe Home Alabama III were to increase your knowledge of efforts to reduce roadway related fatalities and serious injuries in Alabama, to solicit your feedback on the second edition of the Alabama Strategic Highway Safety plan, and to enlist support for the Toward Zero Deaths Safe Driving Revolution, so that we may work together to eliminate fatalities and serious injuries on the roads of Alabama as quickly and efficiently as possible.