Safe Communities: A Cooperative Effort to Prevent Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries in San Diego County Author: Alan Michael Smith 6255 Mission Gorge Rd. Phone: (619) 285-6429 The Safe Communities program was implemented in San Diego County in 1997 to foster local action to prevent motor vehicle deaths and injuries. This paper presents baseline regional data for each of the five regions on location of crashes by type, victim information, and crash specifics. This data has been used to help decide where to target specific interventions within each coalition and has been compared with subsequent years to evaluate the effects of these interventions on the incidence of motor vehicle-related injuries. |