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This report describes potential increases in risky driving that may result from age-related functional changes. A discussion of countermeasures explores ways older drivers may reduce this risk. Appendix D, a separate volume, reviews the literature on effects of aging, medical conditions and medications on driver performance and on effective countermeasures.

This brochure discusses the benefits of sharing data and how that data is used among agencies such as NHTSA, the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the Research and Innovative Technology Administration. These four agencies are represented on the DOT Traffic Records Coordinating Committee. Each agency collects data from States and other stakeholders, for use in a variety of data-driven programs.

Overall, the analyses did not find evidence that requiring 30 to 60 hours supervised driving practice results in different crash rates for 16- or 17-year-old drivers. With low parental awareness and little or no licensing agency verification, it is difficult to determine whether teenagers drove the minimum number of supervised hours required by their States. Improvements in communications with parents and novice drivers about supervised driving requirements, guidance to parents about the best techniques to provide supervision, and tracking actual hours and conditions of supervised driving would be beneficial.

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This flyer incorporates a safety checklist, and other essential information about tire safety.  3.5" x 9", four color, 2 sides.

This booklet presents some of the basic information about factors to consider and equipment needed to ensure an individual's safety and the safety of passengers, as well as the safety of other people on the road, when towing a trailer.  4" x 9", full color, 24 pages.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:The Traffic Records Program Assessment Advisory provides information on the contents, capabilities, and data quality of an effective traffic records system. It describes an ideal system that supports high-quality decisions leading to cost effective improvements in highway and traffic safety.  It includes assessment questions that qualified independent assessors will use to rate the capabilities of a State’s traffic records system.

IMPLICATIONS FOR HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY: The Traffic Records Program Assessment Advisory provides guidance to States on the collection, management, and analysis of data used to inform highway and traffic safety decision-making.  States need timely, accurate, complete, and uniform traffic records to identify and prioritize traffic safety issues and to choose appropriate counter measures and evaluate their effectiveness.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) have agreed on a minimum set of performance measures to be used by States and federal agencies in the development and implementation of behavioral highway safety plans and programs. An expert panel from NHTSA, State Highway Safety Offices, academic and research organizations, and other key groups assisted in developing the measures.

The initial minimum set contains 14 measures: ten core outcome measures, one core behavior measure, and three activity measures. The measures cover the major areas common to State strategic highway safety plans and use existing data systems. States will set goals for and report progress on each of the 11 core outcome and behavior measures annually beginning with their 2010 Highway Safety Plans and Annual Reports. States will report the activity measures annually beginning with their 2010 Highway Safety Plans and Annual Reports. States should define and use additional performance measures for their other high-priority highway safety areas as appropriate.

NHTSA will use the core measures as an integral part of its reporting to the Congress, the public, and others.

The Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor's Manual (TSRP) is for new traffic safety resource prosecutors to assist them as they begin their new positions.  It is a compilation of the efforts of experienced TSRPs who have been in similar positions and did not have the resources at hand, so they developed their resources over a period of time.  This manual will reduce the amount of time that a new TSRP will need to work with other prosecutors, and with NHTSA, other criminal justice entities, State highway safety offices, and traffic safety groups.

Implications for Highway Safety Program Planning - Prosecutors have an intricate role in promoting highway safety through their actions at the local level.  By promoting TSRP's at the State level, the local prosecutors have the resources and technical expertise that until recently has only been available at the national level.  Having prosecutors trained earlier in their career will reduce the number of serious traffic cases that are dismissed or negotiated to lesser offenses.  This manual has been developed by veteran TSRPs and sets forth the tenets for a new TSRP as they begin their careers.  State highway safety offices can use this as a resource for new TSRP and/or for recruiting new TSRPs

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