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Southwestern Minnesota TZD

A regional approach to reducing traffic deaths and injuries.

Innovative enforcement reaps rewards for Southwestern Minnesota's TZD program

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It's not every day you see county sheriff deputies patrolling a highway outside their jurisdiction. Add the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) and the Minnesota State Patrol into the mix and you have an even rarer partnership. But it's exactly what happened when a Southwestern Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths (TZD) enforcement effort brought these groups together in an innovative approach to improving highway safety.

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Annual Report

Southwestern MN TZD Annual Report 2010–11 (537 KB PDF)

Annual Workshop

Regional TZD partnerships hold annual workshops, usually in the spring, to help facilitate the implementation of TZD in their local communities.

More information about the SW MN TZD workshop

News Releases

Troopers in Southwestern Minnesota Focus On Impaired Drivers during the Upcoming Enforcement Project (08/10/10)

Safety improvement project underway in southwestern MN (10/06/09)

Kandiyohi and Chippewa County call law enforcement effort a success (12/31/08)

Contacts

Jon Huseby
District Engineer
Minnesota Department of Transportation
(320) 231-5497
Jon.Huseby@state.mn.us

Captain Brian West
Minnesota State Patrol
507-537-3662
brian.west@state.mn.us

About SW MN TZD

Southwestern TZD includes the following counties: Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Meeker, Murray, Pipestone, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine, Big Stone, Swift, Cottonwood, Rock, Nobles, and Jackson.

SW region map

Fatal & Serious Injury Crash Maps

These maps show the locations of fatal and serious injury crashes in the SW region between 2007 and 2009.

Entire SW Region

By County