The third week of July is Rural Road Safety Awareness Week (RRSAW). During RRSAW, the National Center for Rural Road Safety promotes topics that raise awareness around road safety in the rural context.
RRSAW 2025 Webinar Part 1
Date: July 15, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Mountain/1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern
In this webinar (part 1), you will learn about:
- Why post-crash care is crucial; the challenges in a rural environment; and EMS as an essential service.
- Noteworthy practices in Georgia, such as the Super Speeder Law and the Stop the Bleed Program.
- The findings from a recent study in Minnesota on distance to ambulance staging and access to trauma centers post-crash.
- The importance of whole blood programs and lessons learned from the first statewide program in Delaware.
RRSAW 2025 Webinar Part 2
Date: July 17, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Mountain/1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern
In this webinar (part 2), you will learn about:
- The impetus in creating a Post Crash Care/First Responder Liaison program. This Kansas Department of Transportation program is modeled after the Law Enforcement Liaison programs that have been popular throughout the nation.
- Noteworthy practices in Maine, such as high-speed internet on ambulances, digital alerting, collaborations for messaging on dynamic message signs, and analysis of their lights and sirens study.
- The need/importance of keeping first responders safe and stopping secondary crashes. The national Responder Safety Learning Network will share resources for traffic incident management training, and move over slow down public awareness.
- Unique County Traffic Safety Commissions in Wisconsin review fatality and serious injury crashes to identify trends and countermeasures to reduce the number of and severity of crashes in the future. Local stakeholders having near real-time access to crash data plays a critical role in this process.