1. Safe Communities Highway Safety Information And Community Programs International Traffic Records Forum August 5, 2002 Orlando, Florida

2. What is a Safe Community? Safe Communities is a conceptual strategy for comprehensive injury control at the local level

3. What does that mean? The “Safe Communities” model helps identify injury problems and use local resources effectively to prevent/control those injuries.

4. 4 Characteristics The 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Measures of Exposure Population Licensed Drivers Roadway Miles Miles Traveled Registered Vehicles

8. Comprehensive and Integrated Control System Combines resources to create a complete approach to injury control in your community. Prevention-> Acute Care ->Rehabilitation

9. 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.

10. Presentations An Investigation of Older Motor Vehicle Drivers Involved in Injury Crashes Alan 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 Improvements Lt. Walt Wobig, Kissimmee Police Dept.