2017 Strategic Highway Safety Summit and AAA Drugged driving symposium
The Maryland Department of Transportation’s Highway Safety Office hosted the 2017 Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) Summit on April 26, 2017 at the Maritime Institute Conference Center. Traffic safety advocates and officials from throughout the state attended. AAA feature an afternoon symposium devoted to drugged driving. Approximately 300 people attended throughout the day.
The Maryland SHSP is a statewide, coordinated, traffic safety plan that provides the framework for reducing highway fatalities and serious injuries on all public streets and highways. The plan establishes overall statewide fatality and serious injury goals, and sets goals and strategies within six key emphasis areas including; Aggressive Driving Prevention; Distracted Driving Prevention; Highway Infrastructure; Impaired Driving Prevention; Occupant Protection; and Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety. The SHSP is a working document designed to cover the years 2016 through 2020, and is designed to move Maryland toward its goal of cutting roadway fatalities in half by 2030 and eventually ending traffic fatalities and serious injuries on Maryland roadways.
Achieving these goals will require a sustained and steadfast commitment from state and local agencies and key safety partners. The 2017 SHSP Summit focused on the development of local county SHSP plans and how to use local trend data for each of the six key emphasis areas to target county issues. Ways to establish partnerships with the “Four Es of Safety” (Engineering, Enforcement, Education, and Emergency Medical Services) were discussed and examples of successful county SHSPs were explored. The Drugged Driving portion of the summit highlighted the need to bring stakeholders together to gain a better understanding of the growing threat of drug-impaired driving on Maryland’s roadways. The symposium presented data on national and state drug-impaired driving trends as well as challenges faced by stakeholders in the identification, arrest, prosecution, and treatment of drug-impaired drivers.
The Maryland SHSP is a statewide, coordinated, traffic safety plan that provides the framework for reducing highway fatalities and serious injuries on all public streets and highways. The plan establishes overall statewide fatality and serious injury goals, and sets goals and strategies within six key emphasis areas including; Aggressive Driving Prevention; Distracted Driving Prevention; Highway Infrastructure; Impaired Driving Prevention; Occupant Protection; and Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety. The SHSP is a working document designed to cover the years 2016 through 2020, and is designed to move Maryland toward its goal of cutting roadway fatalities in half by 2030 and eventually ending traffic fatalities and serious injuries on Maryland roadways.
Achieving these goals will require a sustained and steadfast commitment from state and local agencies and key safety partners. The 2017 SHSP Summit focused on the development of local county SHSP plans and how to use local trend data for each of the six key emphasis areas to target county issues. Ways to establish partnerships with the “Four Es of Safety” (Engineering, Enforcement, Education, and Emergency Medical Services) were discussed and examples of successful county SHSPs were explored. The Drugged Driving portion of the summit highlighted the need to bring stakeholders together to gain a better understanding of the growing threat of drug-impaired driving on Maryland’s roadways. The symposium presented data on national and state drug-impaired driving trends as well as challenges faced by stakeholders in the identification, arrest, prosecution, and treatment of drug-impaired drivers.
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