Toward Zero Deaths
Our mission: To create a culture for which traffic fatalities and serious injuries are no longer acceptable through the integrated application of education, engineering, enforcement, and emergency medical and trauma services. These efforts will be driven by data, best practices, and research.
Toward Zero Deaths (TZD) is a Minnesota partnership led by the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Health, in cooperation with the Minnesota State Patrol, the Federal Highway Administration, Minnesota county engineers, and the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Online tool maps out roadway fatalities
Would you be surprised to learn that nine people died on the highway you take to work everyday? Or would you be shocked to see that six teenagers died within five miles of your home in fatal car crashes? With the help of the interactive maps on www.SafeRoadMaps.org, developed by University of Minnesota researchers, you can learn those facts and more by simply typing in your address. The tool also shows which life-saving public policies, such as strong seat belt laws, are in effect in a chosen area.
Events
TZD 2009 Conference
The 2009 statewide conference for traffic safety advocates was held October 28 & 29 at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center in Duluth, Minnesota.
Traffic Safety in the News
- Policy and technology of automated traffic enforcement
- Preventing driving deaths
- Deaths on state roads may be headed for record low
- Minnesota law enforcement goes after the unbelted
- More motorists die on rural roads
- Minnesota traffic deaths hit 300 for the year
- '09 pedestrian fatalities in state rise sharply
- Drivers and their toys: Unsafe at any speed?
- Local students help Klobuchar send the message
- Baby, You Can't Drive Your Car: A judge's favorite punishment for drunken drivers—ignition-interlock
- 22nd Annual Trauma Tactics Conference (PDF 800KB)
- Driving While Texting: Is It the New DWI?
- Engineers take a new line on road safety
- More News