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Safe CommunitiesSafe CommunitiesSafe CommunitiesSafe CommunitiesHighway Safety Information
AndCommunity Programs
International Traffic Records ForumAugust 5, 2002Orlando, Florida
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What is a Safe Community?
Safe Communities is a conceptual
strategy forcomprehensive injury
control at the local level
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What does that mean?
The “Safe Communities” model helps identify injury problems and use local resources
effectively to prevent/control those injuries.
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4 CharacteristicsThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s
essential characteristics of a Safe Community.
• Combining multiple sources of data to identify community injury problems.
• Citizen involvement.• Expanded partnerships.• A comprehensive and integrated injury
control system.
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Identifying Injury Problems
Bring together many sources of injury data to identify injury problems and resources to
solve them within your community.
Combine the injury data with crash, environment and normalizing data.
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Identifying Injury Problems
• Look at non-fatal injuries as well as fatal injuries.
• Develop links between data sources.• Use more than 1 or 2 sources.• Some sources to consider: Trauma
Register, Court Records, Fire Department and Hospital Admissions.
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Measures of ExposurePopulation Licensed Drivers Roadway Miles Miles TraveledRegistered Vehicles
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Comprehensive and Integrated Control System
Combines resources to create a complete approach to injury control in your community.
Prevention-> Acute Care ->Rehabilitation
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Comprehensive and Integrated Control System
– A Safe Communities program is integrated because it tries to reduce injuries and their costs regardless of the cause of the injuries:
– -- motor vehicle - traffic– -- other transportation; pedal cycle, pedestrian, other -- falls -- poisons -- drowning -- burns -- intentional injuries -- suffocation, etc.
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Presentations• An Investigation of Older Motor Vehicle Drivers
Involved in Injury CrashesAlan Smith, Epidemiologist, San Diego Co.
• Pedestrian Deaths and Injuries in 0-14 Year Olds in San Diego County
Alan Smith, Epidemiologist, San Diego Co.• Using Crash Data to Obtain Grants for Roadway
ImprovementsLt. Walt Wobig, Kissimmee Police Dept.