State of Nevada Office of Traffic Safety Highway Safety Plan 2018 James M. Wright, Director Governors Representative for Highway Safety Annual Performance Report FFY 2016 Highway Safety Performance Plan FFY18 Table of Contents Introduction............................................................................................................................................................1 Highway Safety Planning Process.........................................................................................................................4 Performance Measures Common Performance Measures........................................................................................................................15 PM 1: Nevada Traffic Fatalities PM 2: Serious Injuries in Traffic Crashes PM 3: Fatality Rate per 100 Million VMT PM 4: Unrestrained Passenger Vehicle Occupant Fatalities, All Positions.........................................................27 PM 5: Fatalities Involving a Driver or Rider with a BAC of .08 or Above ............................................................30 PM 6: Speeding Related Fatalities .....................................................................................................................39 PM 7: Number of Motorcyclist Fatalities..............................................................................................................43 PM 8: Unhelmeted Motorcyclist Fatalities ..........................................................................................................47 PM 9: Drivers Age 20 or Younger in Fatal Crashes.............................................................................................49 PM 10: Pedestrian Fatalities................................................................................................................................54 PM 11: Traffic Records .......................................................................................................................................59 PM 12: Child Passenger Safety...........................................................................................................................66 PM 13: Bicycle Safety..........................................................................................................................................70 PM 14: Distracted Driving....................................................................................................................................73 Media and Marketing Plan ..................................................................................................................................77 Funding Summary...............................................................................................................................................79 Glossary ..............................................................................................................................................................82 Certifications and Assurances Appendix A..........................................................................................................................................................85 Appendix B..........................................................................................................................................................98 Appendix C .......................................................................................................................................................102 Part 1 Occupant Protection 405(b)......................................................................................................102 Part 2 Impaired Driving 405(d).............................................................................................................116 Part 3 Motorcyclist Safety 405(f).........................................................................................................148 Part 4 Traffic Records 405(c)...............................................................................................................163 Part 5 Non-Motorized Safety 405(h)....................................................................................................181 0 HighwayAnnual SafetyPerformance Performance Report Plan FFY 2016FFY18 Introduction Zero Fatalities has been Nevada’s official traffic safety goal since 2010 when it was adopted by the Nevada Executive Committee on Traffic Safety (NECTS). The NECTS oversees Nevada’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan. These strategies are developed by multiple disciplines and partners across the state that review data and proven countermeasures for an identified traffic safety problem and allocate resources towards solving the problem. The Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) aligns its goals and activities to reduce Nevada’s fatalities and serious injuries in conjunction with the Nevada Department of Transportation’s (NDOT) Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). The FFY 2018 Highway Safety Plan (HSP) prepared by OTS and Highway Safety Improvement Plan (HSIP) prepared by NDOT have coordinated safety target goals for the three common core performance measures: number of motor vehicle fatalities, number of serious injuries, and rate of fatalities per annual vehicle miles traveled (AVMT). This is a significant step in the sharing of resources for an already strong partnership, and brings cohesiveness to the State’s SHSP. Critical emphasis areas (CEA) of the plan include Impaired Driving, Unrestrained Vehicle Occupants, Pedestrian Safety, Lane Departures (Distracted/Drowsy Driving), and Intersection Crashes (Red Light Running). Motorcycle Safety was adopted as the sixth emphasis area in 2014 due to a spike in these vehicle crashes and fatalities and Young Drivers was recently added as an emphasis area to continue our efforts to drive down crashes in the 15 – 20 year old age group and prepare Nevada’s future generations of drivers In November Nevada citizens passed a law, similar to other western states, legalizing the use of the recreational marijuana. A Governor’s Task Force for the Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana was formed to provide specific recommendations for regulations and revenue. The Nevada traffic safety community is heavily engaged in developing new tools and education to combat drug/alcohol impaired driving. OTS opened its grant proposal period in January 2017. Prioritizing these problem areas and providing applicants with resource guidance to available proven countermeasures helps to combat their local traffic problems. Funding for 2018 grant projects includes State funds awarded to OTS to manage behavioral projects that will support strategies in the unified SHSP. Nevada’s 2016-2020 SHSP is complete and the associated Action Plans will be updated annually. Nevada’s Zero Fatalities Goals have been projected through 2030 with interim targets as described in these charts from the SHSP: 1 HighwayAnnual SafetyPerformance Performance Report Plan FFY 2016FFY18 2 HighwayAnnual SafetyPerformance Performance Report Plan FFY 2016FFY18 High-visibility enforcement of traffic laws and a focus on community-level projects played a large part in the improvements of traffic safety in Nevada over the past decade. The state experienced its highest recorded number of traffic fatalities in 2006 at 432; and its lowest recorded number in 2009, with 243 fatalities. This 44 percent reduction in traffic fatalities was significant, but the trend has been moving slightly upward since 2009. Throughout this Highway Safety Plan, you will read about critical traffic issues across Nevada, and how local agencies have proposed to reduce or eliminate fatalities and serious injuries caused by these problems. Statewide, the data indicates that males age 26–35 are represented in the majority of fatalities and serious injuries caused by impaired driving, lack of seat belt use, running off the road, or running a red light at an intersection. Being a pedestrian crash victim is the SHSP’s fifth critical emphasis area, where the male 26–35 demographic is secondary only to males 36–55 years old. This is important to understand in funneling resources to enforcement, and to public education and awareness programs; this is the behavioral aspect of traffic safety countermeasures. NDOT’s Highway Safety Improvement Plan will focus on engineering remedies to reduce fatalities and serious injuries on Nevada’s roads. As fatalities are reduced, the ability to reach the remaining risk-taking drivers, passengers, and vulnerable road users with safe driving messages will be even more difficult for OTS and its partners. In FFY2018, OTS will focus its efforts and resources on those most critical traffic safety problems identified by state and local agencies, and all SHSP partners, to progress toward Everyone’s** goal of ‘Zero Fatalities.’ ** ‘Everyone’ is the fifth-‘E’ of changing bad driving behavior; the first four are engineering, education, enforcement, and emergency medical systems. 3 HighwayAnnual SafetyPerformance Performance Report Plan FFY 2016FFY18 Highway Safety Planning Process MISSION To eliminate deaths and injuries on Nevada's roadways so everyone arrives home safely HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN Nevada’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) is a statewide, comprehensive plan that provides a coordinated framework for reducing fatalities and serious injuries on Nevada’s public roads. The SHSP establishes statewide goals and Critical Emphasis Areas (CEA) developed in consultation with federal, state, local, and private sector safety stakeholders.