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The purpose of the ADD Highway Safety Program is to organize and facilitate cooperative regional efforts to reduce highway crashes, with an emphasis on reducing fatalities and injury crashes on two-lane rural roads, in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
The main focus of the ADD Safety Committee will be to identify “high crash” locations on two-lane rural roads, determine their causes, and propose ways to reduce crashes at high crash locations through Engineering, Education, Enforcement, and Emergency Response (The 4 E’s of Safety). Membership reflecting the 4 E’s will be the composition of the Safety Committee. These include officials from the Kentucky State Police, Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement, local local school transportation officials, chamber of commerce, emergency response personnel, local citizens, local safety education organizations, and other parties interested in safety education in the region.
Education
The BRADD can provide safety information, data, and safety programs information to the ADD Safety Committee and the community. The program partners with Kentucky’s Drive Smart Program and other educational organizations throughout the year to implement safety events in the region including: No-Zone Demonstrations, Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day, Seat Belt & Child Restraint Check Ups, Rollover Simulator, Ghost Out Programs, 55 Alive and others.
Enforcement
By examining fatal and injury crash locations, the BRADD Safety Committee can provide these locations and data supporting any conclusions to the Division of Vehicle Enforcement and the Kentucky State Police.
Emergency Response
The Safety Committee includes representatives of emergency response personnel. Their input will help identify issues with roadway conditions, adequate access, traffic concerns, signage problems, vehicle speed, and educating the public to responding to EMS vehicles. The committee will evaluate these concerns and recommend possible solutions through engineering, education, or enforcement programs.
Engineering
The committee identifies safety projects in the region and helps to direct those projects to the Highway District Office, which will forward the project to the appropriate program at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
The BRADD Safety Committee is currently developing partnerships with the Barren River District Health Department, TJ Samson Educational Resource Center and Barren County Safe Communities, South Central Kentucky Area Health Education Center, and Western Kentucky University’s Institute for Rural Health and Development.
Educate yourself about highway safety issues in the Barren River Area Development District:
Map of Fatal Crash Locations in the BRADD 1997-2000 (Adobe Acrobat Required)
Fatal Crash Location Statistics (Adobe Acrobat Required)
BRADD Safety Education Resource Handbook – Coming Soon
Coming Events
Safety Committee Membership
Safety Links
If you would like more information about the BRADD Safety Committee or would like to get involved, please email Kyle Key.
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