Regular listeners have heard me say this before: our roads are dangerous. And new analysis of crash numbers show that high speed maybe the biggest culprit.
From the Nevada Highway Patrol and UNLV’s Transportation Research Center, of the 1,033 people who died on our roads in 2020 through 2022, 29% were speed related. And the number is higher in just Clark County, where a whopping 36% of the 235 people killed in county crashes last year were speed related. That’s a 29% increase from 2020.
Meanwhile, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported earlier this month that in 2021, more than 5,000 tickets were issued throughout the state for drivers going at least 100 miles per hour. About 4,000 of those were on state highways.
A bill that would have allowed traffic cameras in school zones, that could be used to cite drivers for traffic violations, went nowhere with state lawmakers this year. But 23 states plus the District of Columbia have those cameras at red lights.
But is that the solution?
Guests: Erin Breen, director, UNLV's Road Equity Alliance Project, and coordinator, UNLV Transportation Research Center's Traffic Safety Coalition; Jeff Coday, captain, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's Traffic Bureau; Michael Naft, commissioner, Clark County; Andrew Bennett, director, Clark County Office of Traffic Safety
