Alberta Traffic Safety Focus for April: Speed

The following was published by Traffic Safety Alberta. Every month they have a new focus, April's focus is on Speed, and the 2015 calendar can be found here: http://www.saferoads.com/pdf/TSP-Calendar-2015.pdf 

May's focus is on Young Drivers and Distracted Driving, it can be found here: http://www.saferoads.com/index.html 

Our traffic safety focus this month is on Speed.


Speeding doesn’t always kill. Brain injuries are one of the most common injuries that results from speed-related collisions. One in four fatal crashes involves a driver travelling at a speed unsafe for the prevailing road conditions.

·         In the last 5 years, 467 people were killed and 12,036 were injured in collisions involving unsafe speed. (2009-2013);

·         In 2013, 26.6 per cent of fatal collisions involved a driver travelling at an unsafe speed;

·         Speeding can cause long-term consequences that may affect you and your family;

·         When you slow down, you increase the safety for yourself and your passengers as well as other road users;

·         Demerits for speeding range from two points (exceeding the posted limit by less than 15 km/h) to six points (exceeding the posted limit by more than 50 km/h);

·         In the last 5 years, 39 per cent of fatal speed-related collisions occurred in urban areas, leaving 61 per cent in rural areas (2009-2013);

·       Edmonton had 50 speed-related fatal collisions, Calgary had 47 and Fort McMurray had 13 (5 in town and 8 just outside town) (2009-2013).

I encourage all of our traffic safety partners to discuss this important issues this month, and have included some draft tweets to assist you.  

  • #Speeding doesn’t always kill – brain injuries are the most common injury in speed-related crashes #abroads #speeddoesntalwayskill 
  • Brain injuries are one of the most common injuries that results from speed-related collisions #abroads #speeddoesntalwayskill 
  • Speed limits save lives every day - maybe today it’s yours! Listen to this http://bit.ly/1fFudbT #abroads 
  • #Speeding increases the probability of injury or death if there is a crash http://bit.ly/1fuojKC #abroads
 For more information or tools, please visit the following sites:
Ø  Saferoads
Ø  Alberta Transportation  
Ø  Collision Statistics


 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Self-Promotion for Independents and Young Professionals: Lessons from Business and Retail Politics

Image
 Written By: Henry Lyatsky “Though we called your friend from his bed this night, he could not speak for you, For the race is run by one and one and never by two and two.” Rudyard Kipling (“Tomlinson”)                                                    Want to live?   Hustle!   No downer is more enervating than being ignored, left out, discarded.   You need clients; your start-up needs investors.   Your bills need paying; your girlfriend has run off with your employed former buddy.   Your college degree, supposedly a ticket to a shining life, is worthless.   You are surrounded everywhere by people, all hustle and bustle, not one of whom even seems to notice that you happen to inhabit this world with them.   You are isolated, confused, dispirited, caught in an Auden poem.   The world has no need of yet another geophysicist, engineer, geologist, technician.   You’ve barely started, you fancy yourself something special, and you’re dead-end surplus.   The mid-life crisis
Read more

Intelligently Evolved to Create AI, eh?

Written By: Rod Garland Ever since man slithered out of the primordial soup disguised as a single-celled organism about 3 billion years ago, give or take a few millennia, he, she, or it has been greatly advantaged by change. Not the least of this change would have been the changing environment which had finally cooled the planet to a suitable temperature such that a mixture of chemicals and necessary elements could interact to create lifeforms that would embark on their evolutionary and competitive race into the future. Incidentally, Hydrogen, Oxygen & Carbon were the leading players in these interactions, representing 98% of the atoms to be found in the human body. A personal “Shoutout” to the much-maligned Carbon for its significant and magnificent contribution to this process. Along the way, genetic diversification took place, as life encountered challenges and changes in the environment, whereby some life took advantage of the change while others disappeared from the “tree of l
Read more

The Exploration Directive

Image
    CAGC Column: The Exploration Directive DOUG IVERSON CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOPHYSICAL CONTRACTORS CAGC represents the business interests of the seismic industry within Canada – cagc.ca     The CAGC article, June 28, 2022, discussed the changes to 13 sections of The Exploration Directive, associated with the geophysical Exploration Regulations. Many of the changes were administrative in nature but several changes were operational. Most of this article will discuss the significant operational change. At the annual Regulator/Industry September meeting, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) and Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP) gave a joint presentation. The AER/AEP presentation included a very good brief summary of all the changes adopted within The Exploration Directive. That presentation can be found on the cagc.ca website or with this link: https://cagc.ca/index.php?DL=dViIxR Slides 4 to 16 of their presentation highlighted the changes to the various Sectio
Read more