NHTSA Impaired Driving Update

June 2017

4th of July

Impaired Driving

Campaign

Materials

Americans love to celebrate the 4th of July with family, friends, food, and fireworks. But all too often the

festivities turn tragic on the nation's roads. This iconic American holiday is also one of the deadliest

holidays of the year due to drunk-driving crashes. NHTSA’s Traffic Safety Marketing provides marketing

tools to fit local needs and objectives while partnering with other States, communities and organizations

to prevent drunk driving. Use the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign materials to remind people

that law enforcement will be looking for drunk drivers.

Additionally, the Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving

campaign reminds those celebrating the Fourth of

July to always plan ahead—designate a sober driver

or find another way to get home safely. Access

campaign materials here.

Join us for our 4th of July Twitter Chat!

Wednesday June 28, 2017

3:00pm-4:00pm (EST)

Please share and retweet our messages during the hour-long session to help spread the word that #BuzzedDriving is drunk

driving.

New from NHTSA

Traffic Safety Facts 2015 (DOT HS 812 384) The National

Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s National Center for

Statistics & Analysis has published the 2015 Traffic Safety

Facts Annual Report, which presents data on fatal, injury,

and property-damage-only traffic crashes.

2015 Traffic Safety Factsheet Rural/Urban Comparison of Traffic

Fatalities (DOT HS 812 393) For this fact sheet, rural and urban

boundaries are determined by the State highway departments and

approved by the Federal Highway Administration. The State

highway departments use the U.S. Census Bureau’s rural and

urban boundaries. Of the 35,092 traffic fatalities, there were

17,114 (49%) that occurred in rural areas, 15,362 (44%) that

occurred in urban areas, and 2,616 (7%) that occurred in unknown

areas.

Evaluation of Responsible Beverage Service to Reduce Impaired

Driving by 21– to 34-Year-Old Drivers (DOT HS 812 398) Studies have

revealed that approximately half of intoxicated drivers had their last

drink at a licensed bar or restaurant. This study evaluated an

intervention that integrated outreach, responsible beverage service

(RBS) training, targeted enforcement and, as necessary, corrective

actions by law enforcement agencies. The immediate goal of the

intervention was to reduce the practice of over-serving alcohol and

serving alcohol to obviously intoxicated individuals in bars and

restaurants. The long-term goal was to reduce driving while

intoxicated (DWI) arrests and impaired driving crashes. A summary of

this report is available here through Traffic Tech.

Partner’s Corner

NADCP Annual Training Conference: Advancing Justice

The National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) annually

hosts the world’s largest conference on treatment courts and criminal

justice reform. With over 30 tracks and hundreds of sessions, this

conference provides the training you need on critical topics affecting your

program.

This conference is more than training sessions. This is our annual opportunity to come together as a

community and share ideas, collaborate, rejuvenate and of course...have some fun! For more information

about the conference, visit http://www.nadcpconference.org/.

July 9-12, 2017

Washington, DC

Register here

Traffic Tuesdays—FREE TSRP Webinar

Cross Examining the Defense Expert: How to Make it Count

Where can you find information on crash fatalities? How can you access transcripts and videos of the

defense expert witness at 9 pm the night before trial? What

resources are available? This webinar will guide prosecutors and

law enforcement through the resources that are available to help

prepare for trial. The presenters will guide participants through

online resources including the Prosecutor’s Encyclopedia, National

Traffic Law Center Expert Witness Data Bank, and more.

The webinar will be presented by Lauren Konsul, Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor from New York;

Rachel Smith, Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor from Louisiana; and Andrea Nardone, Traffic Safety

Resource Prosecutor from Massachusetts.

Tuesday June 13, 2017

3:00pm—4:00pm (EST)

Register here

Traffic Resource Center—Website Re-designed!

The National Center for State Courts team recently redesigned the Traffic Resource Center for Judges and

updated the content of the website. Among the updates is a new Constitutional Considerations page, which

lists and describes major cases from the Supreme Court that deal in some way with traffic, along with links to

the opinion in each case. The website's other resources, such as our collection of issue briefs and page about

Missouri v. McNeely and its progeny, remain on the site (though potentially in a different location than

before). We also still have physical copies of our issue brief compendium, which may be acquired by emailing

Greg Hurley at ghurley@ncsc.org.

Partner’s Corner

IACP Training Conference on Drugs, Alcohol

and Impaired Driving

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) is hosting their 23rd Annual Training

Conference on Drugs, Alcohol, and Impaired Driving. This conference provides certified drug

recognition experts (DREs), physicians, toxicologists, prosecutors, and other traffic safety

professionals with a forum in which to share information, best practices, and lessons learned in law

enforcement drug recognitions setting. This year, topics will include the traffic safety implications of ending

marijuana prohibition, the use of Oral Fluid Testing

for DUID, and improving DRE evaluation and report

writing among many others. This event is NOT open

to the general public and is limited to sworn officers,

first responders, and civilian employees of public

safety and government agencies.

Visit http://www.theiacp.org/DREConference for additional conference info, registration and lodging details.

August 12-14, 2017

Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center

National Harbor, MD

Register here

APPA 42nd Annual Training Institute

Registration Now Open! The American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) conducts

the largest national training institute for community corrections

offering workshops, special sessions, resource expo, and

networking opportunities for those involved in probation, parole

and community corrections as well as students and interested

citizens. The 42nd annual training institute will be held from August

27-30 at the New York Marriot Marquis. Click here for more

information about the institute.

August 27-30, 2017

New York Marriot Marquis

Register here

Discounted registration ends July 28

Follow us on social media for more information and updates!

Contact Us Social Media

Diane Wigle

Chief, Impaired Driving Division

1200 New Jersey Ave., SE

Washington, DC 20590

E-mail: diane.wigle@dot.gov

www.youtube.com/user/usdotnhtsa

@NHTSAgov

www.facebook.com/NHTSA

The Lifesavers Conference Planning Committee (LPC) is now accepting

speaker proposals for the 2018 Conference which will be held April 22-

24 in San Antonio, Texas. Proposals must be submitted via Lifesavers'

online portal and will be accepted until August 31, 2017. All speaker

proposals are carefully reviewed for their applicability to the Lifesavers

Conference audience with a particular focus on "research to practice"

and "vigorously evaluated programs."

Researchers, academicians, students, and practitioners are also welcome

to submit a poster via a separate application process in lieu of or in

addition to a speaker proposal; however, the same review process applies. The poster submission portal

will open this September.

Lifesavers 2018—Call for Speaker Proposals!