Alabama Fatalities

  • December 13th, 2018

Summary of Recommendations

  • Speed Reduction
    • Increase in patrol officers both at the ALEA and local levels
    • Comprehensive demonstration speed reduction projects
    • Legislative action to recognize problem and increase funding to ALEA specifically for field officers
    • Continue hot-spot selective enforcement targeting and assure compliance to it
    • Roadway improvements: trees, rollovers, utility poles, ditches, embankments
  • Seat-belt (Restraint) Use Target Groups
    •  PI&E targeting the worst offenders = DUI, high risk takers, young males
    • Target their friends and relatives – people of influence over them
    • Need to draw from intensive psychological studies
  • Multi-Fatality Crash Target Groups
    • Age 16-21
    • State/Federal roads as opposed to County
    • Severest of Violations
      • Cross center line, wrong way, aggressive driving
      • DUI (same as for single fatality crashes & seat-belts)
    • Collisions with other vehicles as opposed to roadside objects
    • Countermeasures must target worst offenders
  • Pedestrian Fatalities: Develop Countermeasures
    • Impaired walking and walking while intoxicated
    • Target: “Not Visible” and other pedestrian violations
    • Combine impaired and distracted walking with driving
  • Impaired and Distracted Driving – Intensify Current Efforts
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