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Holiday DUI Campaign 2019
Alcohol and drug impaired driving is the leading contributing factor in Washington fatal crashes and is involved in nearly half of all traffic fatalities. WTSC is launching a Plan Before You Party campaign coinciding with the annual DUI HVE patrols, December 11 through January 2. Once again we’re teaming up with Lyft, through a grant […]
Teen Driver Safety Week 2019
October 20-26 is National Teen Driver Safety Week. It’s a great time to remind parents that they can do more than worry about their teen drivers, that there are constructive and active steps they can take to help launch their teen into a lifetime of safe and responsible driving. We’re providing a fact sheet […]
Trooper Michael Pry Finds A Way to Reduce Teen Driver Collisions
Michael Pry first thought of going into law enforcement while he was a teenager. “My next-door neighbor, when I was growing up in Lacey, was a police officer, and took me on a ride-a-long.” Something clicked, and today Pry is a trooper in the Washington State Patrol, based in Lewis County. Hooked on patrolling the […]
Defining Our New Normal Drugged Driving and Poly-Drugged Driving
by Miriam Norman, Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor I started my career as a young bright-eyed, naïve child; I was 24 when I graduated law school well over a decade ago. In law school, all three years, I interned at the Harris County District Attorney’s Office (Houston, TX), and wow did I learn things. I am […]
Summer 2019 DUI-CA
HIgh Visibility Enforcement Patrols began August 14 and are scheduled to run through September 2 across Washington. Please remind everyone to “Plan Before You Party” by using the resources provided at right. You may also wish to review our traffic safety culture materials, which offer positive and effective ways of talking about impairment from alcohol […]
Washington Phlebotomy Programs
Did you know most traffic crashes are completely preventable? In the five-year period from 2013-2017, there were 2,551 people who died on Washington’s roads in traffic crashes. Nearly half of these fatal crashes (1,259 of 2,551) involved a driver impaired by drugs and/or alcohol. Washington has seen an increase in poly drugs – a combination of […]
Traffic Safety Conversations with Cannabis Users at Budfest
Attendees of Bellingham’s first Budfest, billed as a celebration of “cannabis culture” in Whatcom County, probably didn’t expect to sit down and talk about marijuana and safe driving. But that’s exactly what many of them did with Region 11 Target Zero Manager Doug Dahl. “I was really pleased with how many people engaged and wanted […]
The Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC) is our state’s designated highway safety office. We share a vision with numerous other state and local public agencies. That vision is to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries to zero by 2030. The WTSC Director is the Governor’s Highway Safety Representative, which is a designated position each state is required to have in order to qualify for federal traffic safety funding. Our Commission is made up of 25 employees and ten Commissioners chaired by Washington’s Governor Jay Inslee.