Business and Corporations: Adopt a corporate policy restricting the use of handheld electronic devices while driving on company time.

Business and Corporations: Take the Buckle Up Phone Down challenge and host a BUPD day/week, encouraging all employees to participate (www.modot.org/bupd).

Civil Organizations and Other Community Groups: Take the Buckle Up Phone Down challenge and promote it to members and the community.

Schools (all levels): Host a Buckle Up Phone Down day/week, encouraging all students, parents and staff to take the BUPD pledge (www.modot.org/bupd).

Counties and Cities: Adopt policies and ordinances that reinforce a culture of safety.

State Officials and State Agencies, Health Professionals, Providers and Emergency Responders: Adopt an agency policy restricting the use of handheld electronic devices while driving for all while conducting official business.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Adopt an agency policy restricting the use of handheld electronic devices while driving for all officers except in emergency situations.

Families and Individuals: Have conversations with children early on about the importance of car seats, booster seats, and seat belts. Explain the risks and potential consequences associated with excessive speed, distraction and impaired driving.

Counties and Cities: Make a commitment to vigorous, visible traffic enforcement.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Make a commitment to vigorous, visible traffic enforcement using data-driven deployment.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Train all officers in identifying signs of impaired and distracted driving and prioritize disrupting these behaviors during routine patrols.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Participate in statewide enforcement campaigns such as Click It or Ticket and Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.

Prosecutors and Courts: Collaborate with law enforcement agencies to expedite the issuance of search warrants for suspected DWIs.

Prosecutors and Courts: Collaborate with law enforcement agencies on proper protocols, standards and documentation needed for suspected DWIs.

Prosecutors and Courts: Consider limits on diversion and plea agreements for repeat offenders.

Counties and Cities, Prosecutors and Courts: Research the use of DWI and drug courts for treating repeat impaired driving offenders.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Expand and strengthen the Drug Evaluation and Classification program by training more officers in Standardized Field Sobriety Testing, Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement and Drug Recognition Experts.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Develop and implement blood draw policies for suspected impaired drivers by coordinating with hospitals, prosecutors and law enforcement officers certified as phlebotomists.

Families and Individuals: Always demonstrate positive driving behaviors.

Families and Individuals: If you find yourself stranded along the roadway: make yourself visible by turning on vehicle hazard lights, remove your vehicle from the travel lanes if involved in a non-injury crash, remain in your vehicle with your seat belt on until help arrives.

Families and Individuals: Request your child’s school promote traffic safety and participate in available traffic safety programs.

Families and Individuals: Take advantage of highway safety courses and workshops in your community, many of which are free.

Families and Individuals: Have conversations with children early on about the importance of car seats, booster seats and seat belts.

Schools (all levels): Partner with Parents as Teachers, preschools and elementary schools to provide families with information on child passenger safety.

Civil Organizations and Other Community Groups: Host or sponsor presentations, workshops and other events to promote traffic safety.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Participate in outreach efforts to raise community awareness of highway safety.

Health Professionals, Providers and Emergency Responders: Participate in traffic incident management courses and/or training exercises.

Health Professionals, Providers and Emergency Responders: Educate citizens on emergency preparedness and properly responding to emergency vehicles.

Health Professionals, Providers and Emergency Responders: Certify hospital staff to educate new parents on child passenger safety and to perform child seat safety checks prior to leaving the hospital.

Metropolitan and Regional Planning Organizations: Educate member agencies on the significance of highway safety and how their agencies can contribute to a safer road system.

State Officials and State Agencies: Provide critical highway safety information to newly elected officials during orientation.

Business and Corporations: Provide traffic safety information to customers explaining how they can help create safer roads.

Public Works and Engineering Departments: Adequately communicate information for construction projects and new designs.

State Officials and State Agencies: Provide a consistent brand and messaging for all highway safety partners statewide.

State Officials and State Agencies: Develop an annual state of highway safety report for public dissemination.

State Officials and State Agencies: Promote recent and existing laws related to highway safety.

Business and Corporations: Adopt a corporate policy requiring seat belt use for all employees on company time.

Business and Corporations: Provide incentives or discounts for customers participating in safe driving behaviors.

Business and Corporations: Take the Buckle Up Phone Down challenge and host a BUPD day/week, encouraging all employees to participate (www.modot.org/bupd).

Business and Corporations: Promote traffic safety during workplace safety meetings.

Schools (all levels): Conduct regular child seat safety checks at daycares, preschools and elementary schools.

Schools (all levels): Promote the MCRS Smart Riders program for elementary-aged students (www.savemolives.com).

Civil Organizations and Other Community Groups: Take the Buckle Up Phone Down challenge and promote it to members and the community (www.modot.org/bupd).

Civil Organizations and Other Community Groups: Work with schools, community leaders and elected officials to adopt public policy and/or deliver infrastructure improvements to increase safety.

Counties and Cities: Provide critical highway safety information and training to newly elected officials, administrators, department heads and other positions of leadership.

Counties and Cities: Adopt policies and ordinances that reinforce a culture of safety.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Support public policy initiatives proven to increase safety for all road users.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Adopt an agency policy requiring seat belt use for all officers.

Health Professionals, Providers and Emergency Responders: Encourage EMS agencies to adopt NHTSA Office of EMS Provider and Patient Safety in Ambulance.

Health Professionals, Providers and Emergency Responders: Provide all first responders with high visibility roadside apparel.

Health Professionals, Providers and Emergency Responders: Adopt an agency policy requiring seat belt use for all employees conducting official business.

Health Professionals, Providers and Emergency Responders: Provide adequate seat belts or restraints for patients and responders during transport.

Public Works and Engineering Departments: Integrate safety into routine planning processes.

Metropolitan and Regional Planning Organizations: Establish an interdisciplinary safety committee to lead organizational actions for incorporating safety into all transportation related functions.

Metropolitan and Regional Planning Organizations: Encourage cities to adopt a Vision Zero (www.visionzeronetwork.org) approach to addressing transportation safety, including Complete Streets or Livable Streets.

Metropolitan and Regional Planning Organizations: Make safety an overarching theme and core element of transportation plans, including regional Metropolitan Transportation Plans.

Metropolitan and Regional Planning Organizations: Participate in Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety meetings and activities. Visit www.savemolives.com for more information.

State Officials and State Agencies: Provide visible leadership that prioritizes safety at the highest levels and promotes a goal of achieving zero roadway fatalities by 2030. Keep the conversation active.

State Officials and State Agencies: Establish a legislative task force to consider laws most poised to reduce roadway fatalities and serious injuries in Missouri.

State Officials and State Agencies: Consider additional requirements and proficiencies for obtaining or renewing a driver license.

State Officials and State Agencies: Commit agency resources to participate in highway safety efforts.

State Officials and State Agencies: Foster an environment of increased public-private partnerships to leverage additional expertise, resources and opportunities for advancing safety messaging and supporting technologies.

State Officials and State Agencies: Explore new ways to support rural and local agencies in identifying safety needs and implementing low-cost, effective countermeasures.

State Officials and State Agencies: Collaborate with universities on continued research needs for highway safety advancements.

State Officials and State Agencies: Allocate adequate funding for educational, enforcement, engineering and emergency services programs designed to reduce roadway fatalities and serious injuries.

State Officials and State Agencies: Adopt an agency policy requiring seat belt use for all state officials and employees while conducting official business.

Counties and Cities, Health Professionals, Providers and Emergency Responders: Upgrade computer-aided dispatch systems and protocols to ensure responders are sent to the correct location the first time and receive critical information to provide an appropriate level of care.

Counties and Cities: Launch a 911 system accessible to all residents, preferably a Smart 911 system.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Implement electronic reporting of motor vehicle crashes and submit reports to the Statewide Traffic Accident Records System within 30 days.

Public Works and Engineering Departments: Install transportation systems management and operations strategies that can improve roadway safety for work zones and traffic incident management areas.

State Officials and State Agencies: Work to expand the availability of 911 for all residents, preferably Smart 911 systems.

Counties and Cities: Implement safety improvements in infrastructure projects.

Public Works and Engineering Departments: Take advantage of technology solutions to reduce the likelihood of crashes.

Metropolitan and Regional Planning Organizations: Promote proven engineering countermeasures (see Public Works on page 36) and include safety as a scoring criterion in project prioritization and selection.

Public Works and Engineering Departments: Use data-driven safety analysis to identify, prioritize and quantify safety impacts of roadway improvements.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Adopt a zero-tolerance policy when enforcing seat belt use, including child safety seats and booster seats.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Proactively enforce seat belt use in jurisdictions with a primary seat belt ordinance. Develop mobilization and awareness campaigns to promote the ordinance.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Proactively enforce the primary seat belt component of Missouri’s graduated driver license and for drivers of Commercial Motor Vehicles.

Health Professionals, Providers and Emergency Responders: Work with family physicians and public health departments to educate patients on safe driving habits and identifying indicators of declining driving skills amongst family members.

Families and Individuals: Monitor the driving skills of family members as they age or face changes in physical and cognitive abilities. Be prepared to have a conversation and intervene when necessary.

Public Works and Engineering Departments: Implement strategies for older drivers included in the Handbook for Designing Roadways for the Aging Population.

Health Professionals, Providers and Emergency Responders: Arrange for EMS and fire departments to teach pedestrian and bicycle safety to children by conducting safety rodeos and safety towns.

Counties and Cities: Adopt design standards that encourage alternate modes of travel and enhance safety for pedestrians, bicyclists and other non-motorized users.

Public Works and Engineering Departments: Provide safer facilities and accommodations for pedestrians and non-motorized users.

Metropolitan and Regional Planning Organizations: Emphasize safety when prioritizing improvements among various modes of transportation, considering how increased multimodal alternatives and operational projects can reduce the likelihood of crashes.

Counties and Cities: Make a commitment to vigorous, visible traffic enforcement.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Make a commitment to vigorous, visible traffic enforcement using data-driven deployment.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Develop new mobilization campaigns that specifically focus on speeding and aggressive driving. Prioritize enforcement on corridors with high levels of pedestrian activity or with a high frequency of crashes related to speeding and aggressive driving.

Counties and Cities: Use traffic offender programs to educate first-time or repeat offenders on the risks and societal impacts of poor driving decisions.

Law Enforcement Agencies: Participate in statewide enforcement campaigns such as Click It or Ticket and Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.

Public Works and Engineering Departments: Reduce lane departure and run-off-road crashes through engineering countermeasures.

Public Works and Engineering Departments: Reduce intersection crashes by improving visibility, simplifying driver decisions and reducing conflict points.

Schools (all levels): Participate in available traffic safety programs geared toward youth, many of which are free.

Schools (all levels): Provide traffic safety information to all students during freshman/sophomore orientation and promote awareness during health classes.

Schools (all levels): Host a Buckle Up Phone Down day/week, encouraging all students, parents and staff to take the BUPD pledge (www.modot.org/bupd).

Schools (all levels): Task a student organization (FCCLA, SADD, Student Council, etc.) with raising awareness and initiating changes in driver behavior among students and staff.

Schools (all levels): Promote driver safety programs available to college students.