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Addressing non-CMV involvement in CMV crashes

A Focus on Partnerships

Chris Luebbert: State Programs Specialist FMCSA - Missouri Division Office

FMCSA’s Mission: To prevent crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses. MCSAP Mission: To provide financial assistance to States to reduce the number and severity of accidents involving commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). The goal of the MCSAP is to reduce CMV-involved accidents, fatalities, and injuries through consistent, uniform, and effective CMV safety programs.

“We have a mission!”

Nearly all our efforts and resources focus on the carrier, the CMV, or the CDL holder… But what about CMV crashes where the non- CMV had the first harmful event and/or contribution to the crash?

Photo courtesy of Missouri State Highway Patrol

University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute Study: 1998 Driver Factors Involved in Crashes between Passenger Vehicles and CMVs

The industry argues these figures demonstrate we should focus less efforts on CMVs and more efforts on passenger vehicles. We should not reduce our CMV

• focus. But we can increase our

efforts to impact non-CMV involvement.

• 1. Non-CMV Contribution (Missouri)
• 2. What did the non-CMV

do that contributed to the crash?

• 3. Driver errors/actions

require efforts to change driver behavior

• 4. How?

Fatal Crashes Contributing Circumstance by non-CMV 2011 106 67% 2012 104 65% 2013 84 56% 2014 101 63% 2015 111 63% 2016 109 63% Serious Injury Crashes Contributing Circumstance by non-CMV 2011 347 54% 2012 294 53% 2013 314 52% 2014 287 52% 2015 289 57% 2016 323 52% Note: 2016 data is preliminary Top 5 Causation Contributing Circumstances by non-CMV

• 1. Distracted/Inattentive
• 2. Improper Lane Usage/Change
• 3. Too Fast for Conditions
• 4. Failed to Yield
• 5. Substance-Impaired

Partnerships!

• We can’t do it alone.
• Partnerships are important at all sizes and

levels – from International/National

• rganizations to community action groups.
• Partnerships help leverage resources to

address a common problem: CMV traffic crashes, fatalities, and injuries.

• Partnerships allow for sharing (funding, data,

manpower, ideas, blame)

Zero traffic deaths sounds like a lofty goal, but it's attainable based on a few driving principles:

• Traffic fatalities and injures are preventable
• A future with zero traffic deaths is more certain than

ever with transportation-related technological advances

• A coordinated effort that brings together multiple

stakeholders with the same goal can achieve more than individual organizations working independently

“Road to ZERO Initiative”

Eliminating Traffic Fatalities in 30 Years!

http://www.nsc.org/learn/NSC-Initiatives/Pages/The-Road-to-Zero.aspx

Reach out to your regional NHTSA Office

• 1. Start the dialog
• 2. Common goals:
• a. Reducing crashes
• b. Saving lives
• c. Partnering
• 3. Discuss CMV crash

factors

• 4. Learn about their grant

programs

• 5. Educate them on

purpose of MCSAP (they may not know)

http://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/whatis/regions/

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Total Number of Crashes

2 12

Total Number of Fatalities

3 10,680 Total Number of Traffic Citations Issued 4 738 Total Number of Seat Belt Citations Issued 5 7,377 Total Number of Speed Citations Issued 6 10,284 Total Number of Traffic Warnings Issued 7 206 Total DWI Arrests and Citations 8 259 Total Commercial Vehicle Citations Issued 9 570 Total Commercial Vehicle Warnings Issued 10 298 Total Drug Arrests Made 11 308 Felony Arrest/Other

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Engage your State Highway Safety Office (SHSO)

• NHTSA works closely and provides

millions in grant funding to SHSO’s

• SHSO administers various

behavioral programs that impact CMV crashes (speed, distracted, teens, seniors, impaired, pedestrians, motorcycles, etc.)

• FAST Act included language to

allow NHTSA Section 402 grant funds to be used for CMV crash reduction projects (as shared in a GHSA webinar)

• NHTSA grants require no match

(SHSO may) http://www.ghsa.org/html/about/shsos.html

• Educate them about our mission and

vision (same as theirs)

• Ask them to include CMV crashes in their

programs

Other Potential Partners State DOT – may have an outreach/education division

• Low or no cost CMV safety awareness via digital highway message boards,

social media, online messages, etc.

State Police/Highway Patrol (various divisions)

• See if Public Information Office (PIO) can raise awareness

Other Traffic/Highway Safety Advocates:

• Traffic safety coalitions
• Traffic safety workshops
• Law enforcement workshops (LETSAC in Missouri)
• Police Chiefs/Sheriff’s Assn.
• Regional Planning Commissions (RPC’s)
• State Trucking Associations/Industry events
• Various others exist

The MCRS includes numerous subcommittees responsible for various traffic safety areas. The CMV subcommittee is made up of diverse CMV safety stakeholders and is currently challenged to remain active and

• engaged. We’re working
• n that.

https://savemolives.com/

Seek out regional or local

• groups. Often times your

best safety advocates are

• perating at the grass-

roots level. Note: These are typically the most passionate!

Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety (cont’d)

https://savemolives.com/

“What do I say?!?!”

• 1. Most people/groups aren’t familiar with

FMCSA, MCSAP, CMV safety, etc.

• 2. Explain our mission: preventing CMV/bus

crashes, saving lives

• 3. Give them some background about MCSAP,

but keep it simple

• 4. Bring crash statistics, maps, pertinent

materials (this will require some up-front work, but can typically be found in the State CVSP)

• 5. Tailor the discussion to the group
• 6. Use emotion to get your message across –

“Fatalities aren’t just numbers!”

Examples of meeting materials

CMV Crashes: Top Ten Counties

CMV Awareness Resources

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/ourroads

Non-CMV Contribution (Missouri)

Are these the “forgotten” crashes?!?!

Chris Luebbert MO Division Office (573) 636-1029 desk (573) 212-7930 cell Christopher.Luebbert@dot.gov

Questions??? Suggestions???

(What are you doing in your state?)