The summer 2025 edition of the California Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) newsletter, The Traffic Safety Navigator, is now available. This quarterly publication provides SHSP updates along with insights into best practices for implementing strategies that can achieve zero traffic fatalities and serious injuries on California’s roadways.

Each Traffic Safety Navigator offers tools and resources that can help agencies, organizations, and the public improve traffic safety.

Topics in This Edition:

• Expanding Connections: SHSP Spring 2025 Virtual Workshops
• Key Takeaways from the Spring 2025 Virtual Workshops
• Using Data to Develop the 2025-2029 SHSP
• 2025-2029 Development Progress
• Safety Spotlight: California Chapter of the American Traffic Safety Services Association
• What is the SHSP?

Other Key Features & Resources:

• SHSP Crash Data Dashboard: This dashboard provides access to crash data from systems like FARS and SWITRS, allowing users to create customizable reports by location and other factors.
  
  
• Educational & Funding Resources: The newsletter shares best practices, case studies from partner agencies, and information on grant programs such as the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) and the Local Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP).
  
  
• The Safe System Approach: The SHSP has adopted this approach, which aims to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by designing a transportation system that accommodates human error and vulnerability.
  
  
• Stakeholder Engagement: The program involves "Challenge Area Teams" of safety stakeholders to develop and implement strategies, encouraging participation to influence countermeasures.
  
  

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