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Missouri: Highway Safety Improvement Program 2021 Annual Report
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2021-01-01
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Abstract:The Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety and the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) are dedicated to improving safety of roadway users through education, engineering, enforcement and emergency medical services initiatives. Safety is one of MoDOT's core values: "Be Safe." This message is also reinforced in the Department’s Practical Design Guide that states, "Safety will not be compromised. Every project we do will make the facility safer after its completion." Additionally, "keeping our customers and ourselves safe" is a MoDOT Tangible Result and is regularly tracked and reviewed in MoDOT’s performance management system. Missouri's Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) is driven by the state's Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). In October 2020, Missouri introduced its fifth edition of the SHSP and established a highway safety goal of ZERO fatalities by 2030. Show-Me ZERO: Driving Missouri Toward Safer Roads guides the State’s safety initiatives and addresses safety from a comprehensive standpoint including engineering, enforcement, education, emergency medical services, technology and public policy solutions. The SHSP focuses on implementing strategies that will reduce both fatal and serious injuries on Missouri roadways. Evidenced-based decision-making is paramount to a sound safety program. Data analysis is a critical part of identifying overrepresented crash types, locations, driver age, driver gender, and driver behaviors. These findings guide the deployment of effective and appropriate strategies to improve safety on the entire system. Efforts are made to analyze fatal and serious injury crashes to help discern where limited safety funding should be applied so that maximum safety benefits are attained. Missouri experienced 987 fatalities in 2020, which is the highest number since 2007. This spike may have been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Fatal crashes involving aggressive driving increased by 22 percent. While the overall fatalities did rise, the benefits of Missouri's HSIP helped to mitigate this increase in severe crashes. This can be attributed to the systemic initiatives and high benefit spot treatments being deployed, as well as other efforts to change the safety culture of Missouri's motorists, such as the Buckle Up/Phone Down campaign.
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