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Research has shown that an effective way to reduce impaired driving is to increase the perceived risk of being stopped and arrested by law enforcement if driving while impaired. One of the most successful strategies for doing this is the coupling of intense and highly visible enforcement with publicity about the enforcement campaign. The term “high-visibility enforcement” (HVE) is used
to describe law enforcement efforts aimed at deterring unsafe driving behavior by increasing the public’s perception of being caught, arrested, and prosecuted.

http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811716.pdf

More and more school bus drivers (monitors/aides/attendants) find themselves transporting pre-school age children and infants.  By law, most children age 4 and younger must be transported in a child safety restraint system.  However, even if it isn't the law, national guidelines based on research recommend that young children be restrained in child restraint system during transport.  This manual provides important passenger safety information to those who are involved with transporting pre-school age children and infants in a school.  8.5" x 11", four color, 110 pages.

Children are our most precious resource.  Unfortunately, they do not have the skills to protect themselves.  Adults can, and must protect them. Most States codify this obligation in various child abuse and endangerment statutes.  Still, many States fail to statutorily recognize the relationship in the traffic safety context.  Indeed, even though virtually every State recognizes the inherent dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol r   DWI), many do not articulate special sanctions for DWI/DUI. 

This monograph addresses motor vehicle occupant protection issues concerning children.  The document discusses the dangers children face and identifies relevant laws and possible criminal prosecutions.  It identifies these incidents for what many of them truly are: important, if often overlooked forms of child abuse.

Click it or Ticket is an intense, short duration seatbelt paid advertising and high visibility enforcement program.  The National Occupant Protection Use Survey recorded the national usage rate at 79 percent, a 4 percent increase over 2002.  National telephone surveys conducted just before and just after the May campaign indicated substantial increases in the number of drivers who had recently seen or heard of police enforcement of seat belt use and thought that police are writing more tickets.  It was concluded that a highly publicized national program of belt use enforcement can increase the number of people who buckle up. 8.5" x 11", full color, 53 pages.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recognizes that impaired driving is a complicated issue that cannot be addressed with one solution. “Alcohol-impaired-driving1 fatalities are affected by several external factors, including geography, urbanization, road structure and conditions, and economic activity, as well as by a State’s laws and programs” (NHTSA, 2011, p. 1-2). Strategies that address impaired driving focus on educating people on dangers of driving impaired, keeping people from becoming too impaired to drive, preventing them from driving after drinking, stopping them while driving impaired, and keeping DUI offenders from repeating the behavior.

While many impaired-driving programs are implemented at the State level, NHTSA recognizes that the lack of resources and political challenges may make implementation of needed and effective legislation and programs difficult. In addition, States may find that some programs are effective in some communities but not others. This publication is intended to be a resource to help communities identify appropriate, effective, and promising strategies and legislation that can be implemented on a local level. It is not intended as a how-to-guide, but rather describes and provides examples of each strategy. Leaders and program managers within communities may find this useful in helping to jump start or reenergize their efforts to reduce impaired driving.

This publication is divided into three primary sections: (1) understanding a community’s impaired-driving problem, (2) strategies that reduce impaired driving, and (3) references and appendix.

http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811678.pdf

This bilingual brochure contains information about the facts and consequences of riding in a vehicle without seat belts.  English/Spanish.  4" x 8.5", Three color, Three (panels)

"Countermeasures That Work" assists State Highway Safety Offices to select science-based traffic safety countermeasures for major highway safety problem areas.  The guide describes major strategies relevant to highway safety offices; summarizes their use, effectiveness, costs and implementation time; and, provides references to research summaries and individual studies. Countermeasures on child passenger safety were added to the seat belt chapter.

This report outlines recommendations resulting from the Criminal Justice Summit on Impaired Driving, convened November 2002, by NHTSA and the National Criminal Justice Association.  The summit was held to identify gaps, problems and challenges in the criminal justice system in the handling of impaired drivers, and to assess solutions and strategies for increasing effectiveness in the enforcement, prosecution and adjudication phases of impaired driving cases.  The summit was designed to achieve the most comprehensive and identifiable challenges facing the system as a whole and the most innovative and inclusive solutions to making the system more effective and efficient.  8.5" x 11", two color, 64 pages.

This publication gives law enforcement officers and expert witness’s guidance on what it means to be a witness, what they can likely expect, and the importance of their roles. It also gives an overview of the complexities of the criminal justice system to help explain why they may be called to testify more than once, and asked the same questions on the same subject for the same case. It helps answer some of their initial questions and concerns. Detailed answers may come from colleagues who have previously testified in court, as well as from the attorney who subpoenaed them to testify.