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 2004 Calendar of Traffic Safety Campaigns


Mahoning Safe Communities (MSC) is a Safe Communities Grantee of the Ohio Department of Public Safety. It was developed to establish and/or expand community partnerships to create safer, healthier communities throughout Ohio. Funding is provided by USDOT/NHTSA and ODPS/GHSO.

Statewide Highway Safety Goals

  1. Reduce the number of fatal and injury crashes per 1,000 total crashes.
    1. To decrease the statewide fatal crash rate by 2% from the baseline to a rate of 3.14 per 1,000 total crashes.
    2. To decrease the statewide injury crash rate by 27% from the baseline to a rate of 242.96 per 1,000 total crashes.
  2. Reduce the number of alcohol-related fatal and injury crashes per 1,000 total crashes.
    1. To decrease the statewide alcohol-related fatal crash rate by 11% from the baseline to a rate of 0.80 per 1,000 total crashes.
    2. To decrease the statewide alcohol-related injury crash rate by 30% from the baseline to a rate of 21.22 per 1,000 total crashes.
  3. Increase statewide belt use from 70.3% to 76.9%

Mahoning Safe Communities Grant Goals

  1. Decrease the alcohol-related injury crash rate by 30% to 23.8 per 1,000 total crashes. (Baseline: the alcohol related injury crash rate was 34.0 per 1,000 total crashes in 2002 for Mahoning County.)
  2. Decrease by 10 percentage points fatal traffic crashes in the 55 years and older age group. (Baseline: 20% of the last 10 fatal crashes in Mahoning County have been the fault of a driver 55 years of age or older.)
  3. Increase countywide restraint use to 76.9% within the next three years with a 2004 goal of 70%. (Baseline: Local observation reports 55% restraint use in 2002.)

Each year, the Governor's Highway Safety Office (GHSO) conducts an analysis of traffic crash data to identify and prioritize traffic safety problems and to target severe crash locations for traffic safety programming. The GHSO is accountable to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for changes in the crash, fatality and injury rates statewide. The problem identification process is designed to target those counties with the most severe traffic-related fatality and injury problems. The GHSO focuses the majority of its resources on these areas because they have been identified as locations where programming may have the most impact on a statewide level.

Based on this system, 20 counties were identified. These counties represented approximately 50% of traffic-related fatalities, 70% of traffic-related injuries, 66% of the statewide traffic-related economic loss, and 68% of Ohio's population in 2002. The priority counties are listed below, alphabetically:

Allen, Butler, Clark, Clermont, Cuyahoga, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Lake, Licking, Lorain, Lucas, Mahoning, Montgomery, Portage, Richland, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Warren