VILLAGE OF AIRPORT DRIVE
  • Home
  • News
  • Residents
  • Businesses
  • Forms
  • CODE

What is happening in the Village?

National Traffic Incident Response Awareness Week

11/9/2018

 
Picture
​The Missouri Department of Transportation and its safety partners remind motorists to move over when approaching MoDOT, law enforcement, fire, emergency medical services (EMS), towing vehicles and any other emergency vehicle with lights flashing
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), traffic incidents are the number one cause of death for police officers and EMS responders nationwide. Each year hundreds of emergency responders representing fire, law enforcement, EMS, towing and transportation agencies are struck and either injured or killed while responding to traffic incidents.
There were more than 7.2 million police-reported traffic crashes in the United States in 2016, up from more than 6.2 million in 2015, according to NHTSA. From 2010 to 2016, the number of police reported traffic crashes increased by 1.8 million. 
Missouri’s Move Over law requires drivers to either change lanes or slow down when approaching stationary MoDOT vehicles, law enforcement vehicles and emergency vehicles when the vehicle’s lights are displayed. If drivers can’t change lanes safely, they must slow down as they pass the stationary vehicles. Missouri’s law was recently expanded to include utility vehicles displaying amber or amber and white lights. ​
Excerpts from an email sent to the Village office from the MoDOT dated 9 November 2018.   

Comments are closed.

    Road Conditions

    Missouri
    Kansas
    Oklahoma
    ​Arkansas

    Current Population
    and GROWING ...

    Tornado Safety

    ​​Thanks for stopping by to visit our online community, be sure and come by soon to visit us in person.   We would love to meet you!

    Archives

    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018

    Categories

    All
    2020 Comp Plan
    Blood Drive
    Census
    CJ Bulldogs
    Days
    Did You Know
    Events
    Fun
    Holidays
    Jasper County Sheriff
    Office News
    Reminders
    Vote
    WC Cardinals

    RSS Feed

Picture

Aerial Photographs taken by Mike Bentley, Village of Airport Drive resident

  • Home
  • News
  • Residents
  • Businesses
  • Forms
  • CODE