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 Detecting Drug Impairment
 
 
 

New York State’s Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee (GTSC) will be coordinating with the Office of Cannabis Management, the State Police, and other law enforcement partners to continue to conduct Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) Training and Advanced Roadside Impaired Driver Enforcement (ARIDE) Training.GTSC is the entity responsible for the implementation and management of the DRE and ARIDE Programs. See information about ARIDE and the DRE programs below. 

 ARIDE Information
 
 
 

The Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) course was developed to train law enforcement officers to observe, identify and articulate the signs of impairment related to drugs, alcohol, or combination of both, to reduce the number of impaired driving incidents as well as crashes which result in serious injuries and fatalities.Many law enforcement officers are trained in Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST) and the skill gained in the course as part of their overall enforcement of driving while impaired (DWI) laws.
Winter Driving Tips | Caltrans
Snow and ice make stopping distances much longer, so keep your seat belt buckled and leave more distance between your vehicle and the vehicle ahead. Bridge decks and shady spots can be icy when other areas are not. Remember to avoid sudden stops and quick direction changes.
Be more observant. Visibility is often limited in winter by weather conditions. Slow down and watch for other vehicles that have flashing lights, visibility may be so restricted during a storm that it is difficult to see the slow moving equipment.
When stalled, stay with your vehicle and try to conserve fuel while maintaining warmth. Be alert to any possible exhaust or monoxide problems.
Give snowplows room to work. A "strike team" may include several plow trucks, including Tow Plows and wing plows using multiple lanes on a major highway. Stay at least four (4) car lengths back from snowplows and snow removal equipment.
Salt brine trucks as well as sand and cinder spreading trucks have signs saying "Stay Back". This is for your safety since material can be spread/sprayed across multiple lanes.
Equipment operators must focus on snow removal and cannot always watch out for motorists. Refrain from, or use extreme caution, when passing snow removal equipment.

Chain Controls
During the winter months, motorists may encounter traction chain controls in the mountain areas within California. When chain controls are established, signs will be posted along the road indicating the type of requirement.

You must stop and put on chains when highway signs indicate chains are required. You can be cited by the California Highway Patrol and fined if you don't. You will usually have about a mile between "Chains Required" signs and the checkpoint to install your chains.
Control areas can change rapidly from place to place because of changing weather and road conditions.
The speed limit when chains are required is 25 or 30 miles an hour.
When you put on chains, wait until you can pull completely off the roadway to the right. Do not stop in a traffic lane where you will endanger yourself and block traffic.
Chain Installers: If you use the services of a chain installer, be sure to get a receipt and jot the installer's badge number on it.
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For more than three decades, New York has been a leader in reducing crashes, fatalities and injuries resulting from alcohol and drug impaired driving. At the core of the state’s well-established comprehensive system for addressing impaired driving is a set of strict laws which are supported by effective enforcement, prosecution, adjudication, and offender programs.
The Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee (GTSC) plays the central role in the promotion and coordination of multiple components of New York’s Impaired Driving Program. The funds and other resources GTSC invests to reduce impaired driving are complemented by a number of other federal, state, local and private sector activities. 

 

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Statewide Efforts to Improve Younger Driver Safety | Governor's Traffic Safety Committee
The speakers include:  Jacy Good - Speaking about her parent's deaths in a distracted driving crashMarianne Angelillo - Speaking about her son's death in a high-speed crashKaren Torres - Speaking about her father's death when he was struck and killed by a distracted driver while working along the highwayHon. Shannon Filbert - Speaking about the importance of seat belt use and safe teen driving. The ripple effect on her life as an unbelted 18 year-old teen passenger involved in a serious injury crash.Request A Speaker For Your School

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The Coaches Care program was begun after a report by the Governor's Highway Safety Association titled “Under Their Influence: The New Teen Safe Driving Champions.” In the report, teens were surveyed and 68 percent identified coaches as safe driving influences in their lives. “Coaches Care” uses role models with whom students regularly interact to help them learn good driving habits. GTSC provides coaches with sample talking points to help them impart valuable lessons to their students. The campaign also includes a series of school sports posters featuring teens and traffic safety messages.Coaches are encouraged to teach their players about the following safe driving behaviors:Put It Down. One Text or Call Could Wreck It All.Stop Speeding Before It Stops You.Buckle Up. Every Trip. Every Time. Front Seat and Back. Lead by example.Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.No More Than One Passenger at Any Time. See the Coaches Care talking points

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Outreach & Education: Places a heavy focus on youth and young adult drivers to change behaviors and stay off the phone while driving, as data shows driver distraction is the primary cause of major injury crashes involving teens. 

Data Collection: Collected data from the annual RoadwatchLB observations and Distracted Driving Community Survey informs the Long Beach Vision Zero initiative and is shared with local and statewide partners with the goal of increasing awareness in our community and developing strategies to make our roads safer for everyone.  

Greenlight offers a free train-the-trainer course that addresses critical traffic safety issues. This course models curriculum delivery and reviews program implementation. Sign-up here

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Funding for this program was partially provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 

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What is red light running?

A violation occurs when a motorist deliberately enters an intersection after the signal light has turned red. Motorists who are already in an intersection when the signal changes to red - while waiting to turn, for example - are not red light running.	

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Is red light running a serious problem?

Drivers who run red lights are responsible for an estimated 260,000 crashes in the U.S. each year, killing over 800 people each year. Nationally, red light running fatalities increased by 15% between 1992 and 1997, far outpacing the 6% rise in all other fatal crashes. Red light running accidents are also the most likely to cause injury. Occupant injuries occur in 45% of red light running accidents, compared with 30% for other types. 	

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A green arrow gives you the right-of-way to make a protected turn. A round green ball means you have to yield to oncoming vehicles and pedestrians before you make your turn.	

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There could be many reasons for this. Many intersections are congested and have a lot of traffic approaching from different directions. Sometimes you just have to wait your turn. If a pedestrian pushes the pedestrian button, the "Walk" and flashing clearance will stay on for a certain amount of time, requiring conflicting traffic movements to have a red light. The longer the pedestrian crossing distance, the longer the flashing clearance has to stay on. Occasionally, a fire or police vehicle, train or ambulance may preempt the signal with their strobe lights, causing the conflicting traffic movements to remain red. Sometimes it is an issue of priority, as a roadway with heavier traffic will typically have more green time than the side street with less traffic to reduce overall delay to the most number of drivers. Some of our busier roadways have the signals synchronized during peak traffic hours, and that may cause the side street approaches to wait longer than normal.	

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Victim’s Stories | Office of Traffic Safety
She was a woman and a little girl at the same time, loving her friends, movies, bon fires, attending basketball games at the school, parties, coloring the Little Mermaid, etc. She had dreams of becoming a fashion designer and travel the world. She left behind her older brother Luca who wishes he could have grown old with her. My pretty girl was a teen who grew and grew in a matter of seconds. As parents we are not supposed to outlive our children from something that can be completely prevented.
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On December 7, 2013 at about 1 a.m., a 17 Year old male under the influence of alcohol was driving 3, 16 year-old girls home. Inside the car in the back was Valentina sleeping without a seat belt. The driver saw an ex co-worker and both challenged each other to a “Street Race.” They were speeding, traveling at over 80 mph. As he crossed a red light he crashed against an SUV and then crashed against a fence, leaving Valentina partially ejected from the window. Valentina was pronounced dead at the scene as paramedics could not save her life.
 

 
    
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 

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2022 OTS Grant Highlights | Office of Traffic Safety
The program uses social media to engage with students and the community by inviting them to become a “Sober Driver” Ambassador by helping spread the word. During the 2022 grant year, Drive Sober Only featured a social media campaign for Sober October with a series of “mocktail” recipes as alternatives to alcohol.

Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency, Arrive Sober/Llegar Sobrio ProgramSanta Cruz County Health Services Agency (HSA) launched the Arrive Sober/Llegar Sobrio impaired driving prevention program to reduce the number of impaired drivers on Santa Cruz County roadways. The program’s focus is on the prevention and education of youth and adult drivers, emphasizing people of Latino ethnicity, community members and businesses. A social media campaign translated into three languages (English, Spanish and Mixteco) educated the community about alcohol-impaired driving. The campaign reached more than 32,000 people. The program also provided bilingual/bicultural impaired driving and traffic safety education and referral services through weekly education meetings for high-risk adult populations. The County also held community education events for families and young adult and adult drivers with a focus on Latino community members.

Distracted Driving

Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services, Greenlight Long Beach Distracted Driving Prevention ProgramThe focus of Greenlight’s Distracted Driving Prevention Program emphasizes youth and young adult education, implements data-driven awareness, and a combination of strategies to effectively address the inequities of underserved populations in Long Beach to reduce deaths and injuries caused by distracted driving. During the 2022 grant year, Greenlight launched the Safe Streets Youth Ambassador Program where students from across eight Long Beach high schools participated in a comprehensive 4-week program to learn the risks of distracted driving, how to use their voice to spread safety messages, and how to successfully develop distracted driving PSAs for their peers. 

California Highway Patrol, Teen Distracted Driving (TDD) ProgramThe CHP partnered with Impact Teen Drivers (ITD) to make California roadways safer for teens and all those they share the road with. During the 2022 grant year, CHP and ITD held community outreach events and school presentations that reached more than 48,000 adults and students.
Click It or Ticket | Office of Traffic Safety
In 2017, 618 people killed in crashes across California were not wearing their seat belts.

Face the Facts

In 2017, nearly half of the motor vehicle occupants who died in crashes were unrestrained.
In 2018, an additional 89 lives in California could have been saved if everyone was wearing their seat belt.

Bust the Myths

Vehicle type: There seems to be a misconception among those who drive and ride in pickup trucks that their large vehicles will protect them more than other vehicles in crashes. But the numbers say otherwise. In 2017, 62% of pickup truck occupants who were killed were not buckled up. That’s compared to 42% of passenger car occupants who were killed while not wearing their seat belts. Regardless of vehicle type, seat belt use is the single most effective way to stay alive in a crash.
Seating position: Too many people wrongly believe they are safe in the back seat unrestrained. 46% of all front-seat occupants killed in crashes in 2017 were unrestrained, but 56% of those killed in back seats were unrestrained.
Rural versus urban locations: People who live in rural areas might believe that their crash exposure is lower, but in 2016, there were 18,590 crash fatalities in rural locations, compared to 17,656 crash fatalities in urban locations. Out of those fatalities, 49% of those killed in the rural locations were not wearing their seat belts, compared to 46% in urban locations.

Click or Ticket — Day and Night

High-visibility seat belt enforcement is important 24 hours a day, but nighttime is especially deadly for unbuckled occupants. In 2016, about 56% of passenger vehicle occupants were killed at night (6 p.m. – 5:59 a.m.) who were not wearing their seat belts.

 
    
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 

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FAQs | Caltrans
in order to minimize the impact on traffic and on the 
 traveling public. Most road improvements on major construction 
 projects are being done at night for this reason. However, 
 there may be certain periods during our major projects 
 when it's necessary to work during the daylight hours.

Why do I have to slow down a half-mile before a work site?

Caltrans begins easing traffic out 
 of the lane that is being worked on in about three-tenths 
 of a mile from the work site for safety. This gives 
 even the most the inattentive driver time to safely 
 merge into an available lane.

Why do I have to slow down in construction zones?

Caltrans often does not post a slower
speed limit in work zones, but motorists are advised
to slow down and proceed with caution whenever signs
of highway work are present. Highway
workers' safety depends on how well you drive. When
three lanes of traffic are channeled into two, traffic
tends to move slower. Driving in an unsafe manner or
at an unsafe speed in a work zone could mean an expensive
citation from the California Highway Patrol -- state
law now allows for a doubling of traffic fines when
they occur in highway work areas.

Why do I sometimes see a highway coned off but don't see any work going on?

Caltrans usually puts up signs and 
 other "traffic control" devices only if work is going 
 on. However, workers may have to leave because of an 
 accident, to get materials or for other reasons. Also, 
 sometimes work is not clearly visible to motorists, 
 like when it occurs underneath a bridge or in the superstructure. 
 Other times, a lane may be blocked to allow concrete 
 to dry.

Why do you use so many cones to block off a lane?

Cones are spaced 50 feet apart where 
 Caltrans workers are "tapering" to shut of a lane, and 
 100 feet apart at the closed lane. That marks the work 
 site and discourages people from trying to drive into 
 the closed lane, which can result in tragic consequences.