2024 South Central Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths Workshop

About the Workshop

This annual workshop helps facilitate Minnesota TZD's goal of creating a collaborative, comprehensive, and regional approach to reducing traffic deaths and severe injuries.

Download the final agenda (PDF).

Presentation Slides

• Welcome and Regional Roundup (PDF)
  Greg Ous, District Engineer, MnDOT District 7, and South Central Minnesota TZD Regional Co-chair
• Crash Energy and Chicken Fingers: A Different Look at Crashes, Vehicle Safety Systems, and Car Seats (PDF)
  Dex Tuttle, Injury Prevention Program Manager, Children's Minnesota 
• Strategic Highway Safety Plan: Minnesota Needs YOU! (PDF)
  MnDOT Staff and Alliant Engineering 
• Staying Motivated During Tough Times (PDF)
  Mark Griffith, South Central EMS Director, South Central Minnesota Critical Incident Stress Management Team and Blue Earth/Nicollet County Safe Roads Coalition Coordinator; and Chaplain John Morris, Minnesota State Patrol
• How Complete Streets Create a Safe System (PDF)
  Sonja Piper, Active Transportation Safety Engineer, MnDOT Office of Traffic Engineering
• Recreational Vehicles on the Roadways (PDF)
  Officer Corey Wiebusch, Department of Natural Resources
• Impact Teen Driver (PDF)
  Annette Larson, State TZD Program and Operations Coordinator
• What’s New with Responsible Beverage Server Training? (PDF)
  Cleven Duncan, Responsible Beverage Service Liaison, Minnesota Department of Public Safety,
  Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division

Workshop Goals

• Encourage traffic safety as a priority for policymakers
• Provide information on traffic safety issues in Northwest Minnesota
• Provide a method to bring traffic safety programs into your community
• Spread successes of the South Central Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths program
• Network with other traffic safety advocates

Credit

Attendees are eligible for 5.0 Professional Development Hours (PDHs). Download the credit form (PDF) for your records. 

Workshop Sponsors

• South Central Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths Program
• Minnesota Department of Public Safety
• Minnesota Department of Transportation, Office of Traffic Engineering and District 7
• Minnesota Department of Health
• Minnesota State Patrol

More Information

For questions about the workshop, please contact Annette Larson, South Central TZD Regional Coordinator, at annette.l.larson@state.mn.us or 507-720-2101.