Safe Driving Awareness Week 2021 Recap

                         

Recap - Safe Driving Awareness Week

Palouse Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO) celebrated our 2021 Safe Driving Awareness Week from April 18th -24th. Our goal was to share the message of safe driving and warn against the dangers of distracted driving. Whitman County saw 102 serious injury and fatal crashes between 2015-2020. Our goal is to have 0 serious injury and fatal crashes by 2030. Our campaign has seen improvement since we started in 2016. From 2011-2015, 34% of fatal and serious injury crashes were caused by distracted drivers, 12% by drowsy drivers, and 54% by young/inexperienced drivers. From 2015-2020 those numbers declined to 21% by distracted drivers, 9% by drowsy drivers, and 33% by young/inexperienced drivers. During our awareness week, we were able to reach over 2,500 people with this message. 

Here’s what you missed: 

We held trivia nights, zoom presentations, and giveaways with involvement from university students and the local community. Thank you to all the Greek Chapters that participated in our week-long competition. Congratulations to the University of Idaho’s Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority for winning the competition. They received Insomnia Cookies for their entire house! Here is the Competition Leadership Board including all the runner-ups.

1. UI Kappa Alpha Theta 

2. UI Theta Chi

3. WSU Alpha Chi Omega/ UI Gamma Phi Beta 

4. WSU Phi Delta Theta 

5. UI Kappa Kappa Gamma 

6. WSU Sigma Nu

7. WSU Kappa Delta 

8. WSU Alpha Delta Pi

(UI Kappa Alpha Theta with their Insomnia Cookie Prize!)

Our Safe Driving Pledge received 14 new signatures, that’s 14 people on the road that have pledged to drive safely and responsibly! We received over 200 views combined on our Facebook and Instagram Trivia Nights and our Safe Driving Zoom Presentations. There are links to all the recordings below. Live participants had the chance to win gift cards to Amazon, Dutch Bros, and Domino’s. Thank you to everyone that participated and congratulations to all of our giveaway winners.

Access recordings of our events from our Safe Driving Awareness Week here

Instagram Trivia Night:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CN3ZwIvn9Os/ 

Facebook Trivia Night: 

https://www.facebook.com/SafePalouseDrivers/videos/476731886710534

Sign the Safe Driving Pledge:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeO63hg3HR8tXOTIc-y6NAQ59wSbUAEBaO_Un5BMzMb9hxhSg/viewform

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