WE'RE
WE'RE ALMOST TO THE END OF THE '100 DEADLIEST DAYS' -- THE
PERIOD BETWEEN
MEMORIAL DAY AND
LABOR DAY THAT'S
CONSIDERED THE MOST
DANGEROUS TIME ON THE
ROAD.
IDAHO HAS ALREADY
SEEN
SEEN 84
SEEN 84 DEADLY CRASHES SINCE MEMORIAL DAY. WHAT TRENDS ARE
LEADING TO THESE
DEVASTATING CRASHES?
MISTY INGLET SPOKE
WITH THE IDAHO
TRANSPORTATION
DEPARTMENT TODAY.
MISTY, WHAT'D YOU FIND
OUT?
KIM, THE MOST RECENT
STATISTICS AVAILABLE ARE
FROM 2017- AND THEY'RE
ALL RIGHT HERE IN THIS
BOOK....
IT'S MORE THAN 100
PAGES OF DRIVING AND
CRASH
CRASH STATISTICS STATEWIDE. IT HAS EVERYTHING
FROM INDIVIDUALIZED
FROM INDIVIDUALIZED
COUNTY
COUNTY NUMBERS TO SPECIFIC CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS.
HERE'S A FEW STATS THAT
STUCK OUT TO US....
A RECENT REPORT FROM A
WEBSITE CALLED 'A
SECURE LIFE-DOT COM'
CITES STATISTICS FROM
THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY
TRAFFIC SAFETY
ADMINISTRATION..
THE REPORT CALLS
INTERSTATE 84 IDAHO'S
MOST DANGEROUS
HIGHWAY..
BUT STATISTICS FROM THE
IDAHO TRANSPORTATION
IDAHO TRANSPORTATION
DEPARTMENT PAINT A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT PICTURE.
- "I THINK IT'S KIND OF A
LOADED STATEMENT. I-84,
TO PUT IT IN CONTEXT, IT
SPANS FROM OREGON TO
UTAH AND COVERS
HUNDREDS OF MILES
ACROSS OUR STATE. IT'S
ONE OF OUR BUSIEST
COMMERCIAL AND
FREIGHT CORRIDORS
ACROSS THE STATE SO
THERE ARE A LOT HIGHER
TRAFFIC COUNTS ON
THERE."
FOR EXAMPLE, STATS
SHOW IN 2017, I-84 HAD
AN AVERAGE DAILY
TRAFFIC COUNT OF 24,580
CARS.
BY COMPARISON, U.S.
HIGHWAY 95 ANOTHER
POPULAR ROAD SAW
JUST MORE THAN 5,200
CARS PER DAY.
BOTH HAD AROUND 25
FATALITIES
.
FATALITIES . SO I-T-D LOOKS AT THE
RATIO OF THE AMOUNT
OF
OF CARS
OF CARS VERSUS THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
.
- "IN IDAHO, OUR
INTERSTATES ACTUALLY
HAVE A LOWER FATALITY
RATE THAN A LOT OF OUR
LOCAL ROADS, A LOT OF
OUR COUNTY AND STATE
HIGHWAYS."
ACROSS THE STATE, THE
FATAL CRASH RATE IS 1.7
PER 100 MILLION
VEHICLES FOR LOCAL
ROADS...IT'S 1.2 FOR STATE HIGHWAYS..AND ONLY 0.9 FOR
INTERSTATES.
WHILE IT MAY BE HARD
TO SPECIFICALLY PINPOINT
THE MOST DANGEROUS
ROADS IN IDAHO..
ONE
ONE THING
ONE THING STATS DO SHOW IS THE MOST DANGEROUS =TIME= ON
THE ROAD.
ACCORDING TO NUMBERS
FROM I-T-D, MORE
CRASHES HAPPEN IN
IDAHO BETWEEN 2:30 P-M
AND 6 P-M..WITH THE
MOST DEATHS
OCCURRING DURING THE
4 O'CLOCK HOUR.
THOSE SAME NUMBERS
ALSO SHOW MORE
CRASHES HAPPEN ON
FRIDAY THAN ANY OTHER
DAY OF THE WEEK.
"ANOTHER
"ANOTHER THING WE'VE SEEN THIS SUMMER IS WE'VE HAD 25 PEOPLE
WHO'VE DIED IN OUR
AUTOMOBILE CRASHES
WEREN'T WEARING THEIR
SEATBELTS."
NATIONWIDE, SEAT BELT
USAGE IS AT 90
PERCENT.IN IDAHO, IT'S
ONLY 85.
OVER A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD
BETWEEN 2013 AND 2017,
69 PERCENT OF PEOPLE
KILLED IN CAR CRASHES
WERE NOT WEARING A
SEATBELT
.
SEATBELT . AND THERE'S A THIRD
DEADLY TREND.DUI-
RELATED CRASHES.
- "THIS SUMMER, SINCE
MEMORIAL DAY, WE'VE
HAD 10 FATALITIES
RESULTING FROM DUI-
RELATED CRASHES."
22 PERCENT OF ALL FATAL
CRASHES IN IDAHO WERE
DUI-RELATED THE HIGHEST OF ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTING FACTOR,
INCLUDING SPEED AND
DISTRACTED DRIVING. I-T-D SAYS EVERY BIT OF DATA IT COLLECTS, THE
AGENCY USES TO HELP
IMPROVE ROADWAYS.
- "WE WANT TO MAKE
SURE WE USE ALL THE
DATA WE COLLECT IN A
POSITIVE
POSITIVE WAY TO MAKE OUR ROADS SAFER AND KEEP OUR MOBILITY."
AS FAR AS DUI-RELATED
CRASHES, MORE THAN 7-
THOUSAND ARRESTS
WERE MADE AND NEARLY
12-THOUSAND CITATIONS
WERE GIVEN OUT FOR D-
U-I'S IN 2017.
KIM?
KIM?
FOR
FOR A
FOR A MORE DETAILED BREAKDOWN OF THOSE STATISTICS, YOU CAN
CHECK OUT