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Louisiana: Highway Safety Improvement Program 2021 Annual Report
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2021-01-01
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Abstract:Louisiana has set an aggressive target for reducing death and injury on the roadways –Destination Zero Deaths. The 2017 Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) targets five emphasis areas: impaired driving, occupant protection, infrastructure and operations, crashes involving young drivers and distracted driving. Although preliminary, Louisiana is showing a significant increase in annual fatalities from 2019 to 2020. Like the rest of the Nation, Louisiana was faced with shutdowns and increased fatalities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite, dramatic drops in traffic during the shutdown in the spring of 2020 and reduction in total crashes, Louisiana is showing close to a 14% increase in fatalities at 828. That’s up from 727 in 2019. It is unknown as to what specifically contributed to such an increase during those months. For the first time since in over 10 years, Louisiana fatalities are above the SHSP target of reducing fatalities in half by 2030. With this increase in fatalities, it is more important than ever that the state focuses on data driven strategies from SHSP and HSIP Implementation Plan as LA DOTD strives for improvement within each of the emphasis areas and begin the process of updating our SHSP for 2022. Although 2020 has been a difficult year for highway safety, LA DOTD has accomplished a number of successes in each emphasis area.
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