A regional approach to reducing traffic deaths and injuries.

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 Southwest Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths (TZD) enforcement effort brought these groups together in an innovative approach to improving highway safety.
April 23, 2010
Redwood Falls Community Center
More about the SW TZD Workshop
Troopers in Southwest 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)
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
Southwest 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.
These maps show the locations of fatal and serious injury crashes in the SW region between 2006 and 2008.