1. No matter what your mode! Redmond OR BEND METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZTION bendmpo.org

2. Agenda Driving Safety Bicycle Safety Pedestrian Safety Crash Data

3. Don't Drive Drunk More than 30 percent of all auto crash fatalities in the United States involve drivers impaired by alcohol.

4. Don't Speed As the old public service campaign so succinctly put it, "Speed kills.“

5. Hang up and drive! Drivers who use cell phones are four times more likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Driver distraction, such as cell phone use and text messaging, is a growing safety concern for the transportation industry. This staged photo demonstrates one of the dangers of distracted driving.

6. Failure to obey traffic control devices.

7. Crosswalks…be aware. Every corner is a crosswalk whether marked or unmarked.

8. Avoid the “right-hook”

9. Watch Out for the Other Person Be aware and predictable.

10. Drive Cautiously Yield to Cyclists Be Considerate Pass with Care Watch for Children

11. Bicycle & Pedestrian Safety

12. 5 Principles for Safe & Enjoyable Cycling with Traffic Aware having knowledge or perception of a situation or fact Predictable behaving in a way that is expected Visible able to be seen ::New Oxford American Dictionary:: Assertive having or showing a confident and forceful personality Courteous polite, respectful, or considerate in manner

13. Bicycles are vehicles Same rights and duties ORS 814.400

15. Lights Front white light: 500ft Rear red reflector: 600ft During limited visibility conditions ORS 815.280

17. Ride Right Drivers do not expect you on the left Makes it impossible to read signs and signals Motor vehicle driver field of vision Visibility

19. Signals Hand Signal necessary for at least 100 feet before turn or stop Unless circumstances require both hands to control bicycle ORS 814.440

20. Door Zone Beware of the door zone Ride approx 13’ from the curb Drivers- Open the door when reasonably safe ORS 811.490

21. Yield to the motor vehicle or take the lane ‘Right Hook’

22. Urban Cycling

23. Roundabout Safety

24. Pedestrian Safety

25. What is a Pedestrian?  Pedestrian means any person afoot or confined in a wheelchair. ORS 801.385

26. Right of Way  Pedestrians have right of way on sidewalks, marked and unmarked crosswalks, and multiuse paths. ORS 811.025

27. Crosswalks Vehicles must stop and remain stopped for pedestrians in crosswalks. ORS 811.028

28. Jay Walking?  Pedestrians not in crosswalks must yield right of way to all vehicles on the roadway. ORS 814.040

29. Change your Streets!

30. More information

31. Thank you Kim Curley kim@commuteoptions.org 541-408-6111 Jovi Anderson janderson@ci.bend.or.us janderson@ci.bend.or.us 541-693-2122 Ponderosa Elementary-Bend OR Brian Potwin brian@commuteoptions.org