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CERS launches a new national service to help drivers identify the nation’s Top 100 “Hot Zones,” rural areas with the most fatalities over the past five years.
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What's new?

• Lots of deer. Lots of crashes. What to do?
• New law will enforce seat belt use
  
• New research report: Feasibility of a Quantitative Rural Safety Policy Improvement Index (RSPII): Phase I
  May 2009, Report No. CTS 09-14
• National Rural Summit on Traffic Safety Culture, Big Sky, Montana, June 22, 2009
• New research report: ITS and Transportation Safety: EMS System Data Integration to Improve Traffic Crash Emergency Response and Treatment
• Stepped-up patrol efforts help save lives
• Safe Cab Program Cutting Down On DWIs
• Five-County Minnesota Case Study: Rural Roadway Fatal Crash Characteristics and Select Safety Improvement Programs
• Rumble strips are raising grumbles
• University Launches Rural Safety Partnership with Isanti County
• County joins national effort promoting safety on rural roads
• County chosen as pilot site to promote safety

Did you know?

Key facts about rural transportation safety

• Half of the 42,000 crash-related fatalities in the United States occur on two-lane rural roads.
• Crash victims are five to seven times more likely to die if arrival to a hospital exceeds 30 minutes. The time between a crash and arrival at a hospital averages 34 minutes in urban areas and 52 minutes in rural areas.
• 62 percent of all alcohol-related fatalities involving passenger vehicles occur on rural roads.