Ohio Traffic Safety Office

This strategic plan outlines a holistic approach to saving lives and preventing injuries on roadways. It is structured around five "Safe System" objectives: Safer People, Safer Vehicles, Safer Speeds, Safer Roads, and Post-Crash Care. The plan details numerous strategies and action steps focusing on research, education, outreach, and enforcement to promote safe driving behaviors, enhance vehicle safety features, manage speeds effectively, design safer infrastructure, and improve post-crash emergency care.

This document outlines strategic initiatives for enhancing traffic safety in Ohio. The plan is structured around five key pillars: Safer People, Safer Vehicles, Safer Speeds, Safer Roads, and Post-Crash Care. Key initiatives include research on seat belt usage, educating young drivers on safe practices, promoting positive driving habits, targeted outreach for motorcyclists and motorists, advanced motorcycle training, enhancing work zone safety education, a collaborative Move Over Law campaign, strengthening distracted driving law education, educating consumers on Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) features, targeted communication for high-risk drivers, promoting strategic use of safety signage, expanding safety data collection and analysis, and exploring pre-hospital whole blood programs. These strategies collectively aim to reduce traffic fatalities and improve overall road safety.

This strategic plan, developed by the Ohio Traffic Safety Council, outlines an action plan centered around five 'Safe System' objectives: safer people, safer vehicles, safer speeds, safer roads, and post-crash care. The plan details ten strategies for 2025, each with a coordinator, focusing on initiatives such as educating Ohioans on drug-impaired and distracted driving, enhancing motorcycle and work zone safety, promoting seatbelt use, targeting speed setting, advocating for roundabouts, studying innovative road designs, supporting traffic crash victims, and streamlining fatal crash investigations, all aimed at reducing fatalities and injuries on roadways.

The Ohio Traffic Safety Council meeting included discussions on various strategies and action items related to traffic safety. Key topics included educating Ohioans on the dangers of drug-impaired driving, forming a Motorcycle Safety Advisory Committee, developing targeted distracted driving education approaches, enhancing work zone safety education, and identifying new approaches to encourage Ohioans to buckle up. The council also discussed target speed setting pilots, promoting the widespread adoption of roundabouts, studying innovative road design approaches such as "Text Stops", recognizing and supporting victims of traffic crashes in Ohio, and streamlining the investigation of fatal crashes.

The Ohio Highway Safety Plan for FFY 2023 outlines the Ohio Traffic Safety Office's (OTSO) mission to save lives and reduce injuries on Ohio's roads through leadership and partnerships. It prioritizes problem areas such as impaired driving, occupant protection, speed, motorcycles, youth, and distracted driving. The plan details major strategies including earned and paid media, high visibility enforcement, and law enforcement training. It also describes the processes, key partners, data analysis, performance targets, and countermeasure strategies aimed at reducing fatalities and serious injuries.