Mitigation of Lane Departure Crashes in the Pacific Northwest through Coordinated Outreach Phase III

University Transportation Centers Program2017PDFTech ReportHurwitz, DavidFleskes, KaylaAbdel-Rahim, AhmedBelz, NathanBoyle, LindaHajibabai, LeilaPacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) (UTC)University of Washington. University Transportation Center for Region 10United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) ProgramUnited States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and TechnologyPacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) (UTC)University of Washington. University Transportation Center for Region 10Pacific StatesUnited StatesElementary school studentsHighway safetyOutreachRan off road crashesSafety programsPublic serviceLane Departure CrashesPublic Service AnnouncementsFinalA heavily interactive transportation safety presentation was developed by the research team. The safety presentations focused on local transportation safety issues, using images of locations that students might recognize to help engage students in safety within their communities. Eighteen safety presentations were made to 488 students throughout the Pacific Northwest. After the presentation, students were asked to creatively respond to the prompt, \u201chow do you think we stop crashes?\u201d Students created 408 drawings, wrote 124 narratives, and were interview 4 times about their ideas with researchers. In total 536 individual items were produced by students who participated in the safety presentations. These items were analyzed in the form of word clouds and picture mosaics which were developed on a per state basis and across the Pacific Northwest. Many of the suggestions from students focused on engineering, education or enforcement options to improve issues associated with driver behaviors.140