Saving Lives During Canada Road Safety Week

May 12 – 18, 2009 will mark Canada Road Safety Week, a national campaign to make Canada’s roads the safest in the world.

This week has been strategically chosen, as it is the first “summer” long weekend. More people are traveling and traffic collisions are more frequent. Police vehicles will be stationed at key locations to remind people that safe driving habits save lives and reduce injuries on our roadways.

The focus during Canada Road Safety Week will be on behaviours that reduce risks for drivers, passengers and other road users: sober and alert driving, seat belt use, and refraining from all aspects of aggressive driving. All enforcement agencies across the country have been invited to participate.

“Anyone can become a victim of unsafe driving whether by direct involvement or when a loved one is affected,” says Chief Gary Crowell. “Police agencies across the country are collaborating on this project because they have seen this kind of devastation and because they know that the involvement of the driving public is essential to achieve safer streets and highways.”

Here in Halton, there were 15 deaths and over 1,200 serious injuries in 2008 related to vehicle collisions. These are just numbers, but they represent a lot of pain and heartache for members of our community that could have been prevented. That is why, in support of Canada Road Safety Week, we will have the following initiatives taking place in Halton.

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• Will be conducting intercept enforcement for the “aggressive driver”.
• RIDE checks will take place on May 14th.

• Scheduled RIDE on May 15 and 16.
• The 911 “Safe Roads Your Call” project is coming out the week of May 18. Regional Initiative
• May 16 – Project ERASE deployment as well

• Burlington Truck Blitz – March 11 & 12
• “Bears in the Woods” is running the entire month targeting rural speeding.

Canada Road Safety Week is sponsored by Transport Canada and endorsed by police and is part of Road Safety Vision 2010, which has a goal of making Canada’s roads the safest in the world by 2010. Now that we are only a year away, we see a need to extend this vision and continue to strive for this goal.

“Dedicated to improving public safety on our roadways.”

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