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March 2025: Roadway Safety

Roadway safety encompasses many elements that all contribute to a safer driving environment, including infrastructure, driving behavior, enforcement, and emergency response. By addressing these diverse factors through effective programs, emerging technologies, and comprehensive prevention strategies, police agencies can drive meaningful change within their community.

 

GUEST EDITOR: Kyle Clark

GUEST ADVISER: Michael Rapich

Articles

  • The Art of the Possible, Permissible, and Acceptable

    By Kyle Gordon, Commander, National Police Chiefs’ Council Lead, Roads Policing Operations, United Kingdom
    Roads policing (a UK term relating to dedicated highway patrol and traffic enforcement units) evokes mixed feelings from the public and from policing professionals alike. Nobody likes to be caught spe...

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  • Curbing the Threat of Distracted Driving

    By Robyn D. Robertson, Karen Bowman, and Carl Wicklund, Traffic Injury Research Foundation, USA, Inc.
    A dramatic increase in road deaths reported in 2021, showing almost 43,000 people killed on U.S. highways, revealed how easily progress in making roads safer can be lost.1 This 10 p...

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  • Drive Without Alcohol

    By Delia A. Ruelas Valdes, Senior Consultant, CSV Mexico
    Mexico, like many developing nations, faces significant challenges in terms of road safety. Every year, thousands of people lose their lives or are seriously inju...

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  • Managing an Epidemic of Wrong-Way Drivers

    By Jeff Nigbur, Assistant Superintendent, Utah Highway Patrol
    In the early morning of December 17, 2024, Trooper Carlos Rios-Redd was on a routine graveyard shift, unaware that the next call for service would significantly impact many lives, including hi...

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  • The SMART Approach for Emergency Vehicle Lighting

    By Thomas Brengel, Master Sergeant, Illinois State Police
    Recall a time when you were driving and approached an emergency scene. What’s the first thing you noticed? Likely, you encountered several emergency vehicles an...

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