Southeast Minnesota TZD

Overview and Strategic Plan

• One-page overview of Southeast Minnesota TZD (docx)
• Strategic Plan (docx)

Annual Report

• Southeast MN TZD Annual Report 2023-2024 (PDF)

SHSP Summary

• Strategic Highway Safety Plan (2025-2029): Southeast Region Report (PDF)

TZD Initiatives in this Region

• Safe Roads Program Coalitions
• TZD Enforcement Grantees (MN DPS/OTS)

Regional Seat Belt Data

As of April 2023, the seat belt compliance rate in southeast Minnesota was 89 percent. This is back to the pre-pandemic (2019 = 89.0%) range. The region's long-term goal is to achieve a 100% usage rate. The short-term goal is an increase in the usage rate each year.

News

• Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths sees six year low; Wabasha County Sheriff weighs in
  KIMT3, January 23, 2026
• Buckle up, phone down: Rice County advances toward zero traffic deaths through TZD program
  Faribault Daily News, September 19, 2025

Crash Maps and Analysis

These maps show the locations of fatal and serious injury crashes in each Southeast region county between 2021 and 2025.

• Dodge County (PDF)
• Fillmore County (PDF)
• Freeborn County (PDF)
• Goodhue County (PDF)
• Houston County (PDF)
• Mower County (PDF)
• Olmsted County (PDF)
• Rice County (PDF)
• Steele County (PDF)
• Wabasha County (PDF)
• Winona County (PDF)