Wyoming
SHSP Key Components
Emphasis Areas
Enforcement/Adjudication
Increase targeted enforcement on high-incident corridors.
Engineering
Install centerline and edge line rumble strips/stripes.
Upgrade and improve shoulder treatments.
Expand and maintain roadway visibility features (e.g., pavement markings and curve signs).
Increase roadway lighting.
Remove fixed objects hindering visibility when possible.
Rebuilding curves to meet design standards (e.g., radii and superelevation).
Appropriate roadway surface friction treatments.
Education
Train and educate roadway users to properly negotiate curves.
Use media to educate roadway users about potential dangers associated with curves.
Incident Management/EMS
Improve emergency response time in rural areas through better planning and communication.
Enforcement/Adjudication
Educate roadway users, business owners, and alcohol servers on the dangers of substance-impaired driving.
Legislative/Policy/Programmatic
Continue programs aimed at target groups (e.g., young drivers) to educate them on the dangers of impaired driving (i.e., Alive at 25).
Continue addressing enforcement options for marijuana coming into Wyoming from neighboring states.
Continue to advocate for harsher penalties for impaired driving.
Advocate for tougher immediate sanctions for drivers who drive while impaired (i.e., ignition interlock devices).
Data
Continue to encourage law enforcement agencies to keep training officers on the dangers of impaired driving and the latest detection methods aimed at stopping impaired driving.
Education
Encourage multi-agency initiatives and task forces to identify effective areas for targeted DWUI enforcement.
Enforcement/Adjudication
Aggressively enforce the occupant protection component of current laws.
Aggressively enforce child safety laws.
Encourage law enforcement agencies to certify more officers as Child Passenger Safety Technicians.
Engineering
Increase the use of available technologies to encourage the use of safety restraints.
Use overhead signs to encourage the use of safety restraints.
Education
Educate parents, caregivers, and grandparents about proper selection and installation of child safety and booster seats.
Continue to educate the general public and target groups (e.g., young drivers) about the importance of occupant protection.
Continue to educate the public about child safety laws.
Legislative/Policy/Programmatic
Enact a primary seatbelt law.
Encourage communities to adopt local primary seatbelt ordinances.
Enforcement/Adjudication
Increase targeted enforcement on high-incident corridors.
Increase the use of visible enforcement programs.
Encourage the continued use of speed monitoring systems.
Engineering
Expand the use of variable messaging signs and variable speed limits in areas with high levels of incidents.
Expand communication with drivers to alert them of changing road or weather conditions.
Identify appropriate speed limits for local roads.
Education
Continue to make drivers aware of the dangers of reckless driving and the dangers of speeding.
Educate drivers and motorcycle riders to be aware of vulnerable road users (pedestrians and bicyclists) along and crossing roadways, especially in suburban areas.
Educate drivers and motorcycle riders about the challenges of operating motor vehicles in adverse weather conditions.
Educate drivers and motorcycle riders about the dangers of aggressive driving.
Enforcement/Adjudication
Expand enforcement strategies focusing on young drivers.
Encourage anti-texting initiatives.
Encourage strict enforcement of laws focusing on issues pertaining to young drivers including Graduated Driver’s License, seatbelt laws, distracted driving laws and ordinances, cell phone ordinances, and passenger restrictions.
Education
Educate young drivers on all aspects of safe driving.
Encourage parents to consider the advantage of purchasing safer vehicles for their young drivers.
Make parents aware of in-vehicle monitoring devices.
Encourage open communication between parents and young drivers about the dangers of risky driving behaviors.