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We have a public safety crisis here in Florida. Fatal crashes are up 10 percent this year.

During the first 11 years of the study period, we found an over-representation of alcohol-related fatal and injury crashes the day of the game. The proportion of fatal and injury crashes that were alcohol-related was 33 percent greater on Super Bowl Sunday than on comparable Sundays in January and February.

Last year, alcohol was a factor in 22 percent of the 242 fatal and injury crashes reported in Louisiana over the New Year's holiday. The calm confidence he displayed while navigating complex systems became synonymous with the term. Last year, alcohol was a factor in 22 percent of the 242 fatal and injury crashes reported in Louisiana over the New Year's holiday.

Fatal crash involvements for 16-year-olds fell 26 percent from 1993 to 2003 as states began to enact graduated licensing laws. But this has not solved the problem by any means. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers. The later they start driving, the better.

Of the nine people killed in crashes during the 2004 New Year's holiday, six, or 67 percent, were involved in alcohol-related crashes.

Red light cameras can help communities enforce traffic laws by automatically photographing vehicles whose drivers run red lights. A nationwide study of fatal crashes at traffic signals in 1999 and 2000 estimated that 20 percent of the vehicles involved failed to obey signals. In 2004 alone, more than 900 people were killed, and an estimated 168,000 were injured, in crashes that involved red light running. About half of all deaths in red light running crashes are pedestrians and occupants in other vehicles who are hit by the red light runners.

Young, inexperienced drivers are much more likely to be in fatal crashes at this time of year.

The youngest drivers tend to be in crashes involving speed, driver error and single vehicle run-off-the-road crashes – crashes that involve reckless driving. Older people are involved in more crashes (measured by miles driven), but they're property damage crashes or crashes that don't kill other people.

If there is a safety message to be echoed, this accident shows just how dangerous rural roads and highway can be. We see lots of vehicle crashes in our rural areas. When a crash occurs the kinetic energy from the crash gets transferred to the occupants in the vehicles, sometimes with fatal consequences.

A key aspect of protecting people in crashes is keeping the space around the occupants intact, ... Then the safety belts and airbags can prevent significant injuries, even in very serious crashes. This is what happened in the Tundra, but not in the F-150.

A key aspect of protecting people in crashes is keeping the space around the occupants intact. Then the safety belts and airbags can prevent significant injuries, even in very serious crashes. This is what happened in the Tundra, but not in the F-150.

With speeding as a factor in one-third of all fatal highway crashes, it makes all the sense in the world to work to reduce this number.

The Child Passenger Safety Coalition comprises more than two dozen health and safety organizations as well as more than 100 local law enforcement agencies committed to passing House File 319 and its companion Senate File 298. It is time that Minnesota took seriously the leading cause of death for children more than one year of age- automobile crashes, as well as the simple and inexpensive solution- a belt positioning booster seat.

[Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that] to a certain extent, the worse the crisis, the closer to home you should deal with it. ... You ought to be dealing with the crisis, not explaining things to somebody else.

There were still 385 alcohol-related crashes this year and 418 deaths in those crashes... that's more than one a day.

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