Sept. 5, 2019—For immediate release
COLUMBIA—The 4th annual combined Missouri Highway Safety & Traffic Blueprint Conference is set to take place from Sept. 9 through 11 at the Holiday Inn Executive Center in Columbia. The three-day conference will focus on engineering, education, enforcement and emergency management services—the “Four Es of highway safety.”
This year’s theme is BE the CHANGE…Together Toward ZERO. Conference topics include: distracted driving, complacency, Child Passenger Safety recertification, human trafficking, youth programs, older drivers, autonomous vehicles and new technologies, smart communities, legal aspects of traffic engineering and data driven safety analysis.
“The Blueprint Conference is a great opportunity for everyone who cares about highway safety to learn more about what others are doing in this very specialized and important field as we continue to work toward zero deaths on Missouri roadways,” said Jon Nelson, chair of the Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety. “It’s also a great reminder that everyone can do something to help make our roads safer. It’s a responsibility we all share.”
Presenters include Marcus Engel, who with his wife Marvelyne, founded the I’m Here Movement; Jermaine Galloway, aka “Tall Cop; Darrin Grondel, chair of the Governors Highway Safety Association; Kate Hartman from the United States Department of Transportation; Jennifer Smith, whose mother was killed by a driver using a cell phone; and Georgia State Rep. John Carson.
The conference is a combined effort of the Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety and the University of Missouri. The first session begins at 12:30 p.m., Sept. 9 with presentations from Col. Eric Olson, Missouri State Highway Patrol; MoDOT Director Patrick K. McKenna; MoDOT State Highway and Traffic Engineer Nicole Hood; and Susan DeCourcy, regional administrator at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Sept. 10 will be a full day of traffic engineering, law enforcement, education and Blueprint behavioral topics occurring during concurrent separate breakout sessions. The conference will end at noon on Sept. 11.
For more information, see the link at SaveMOLives.com.
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