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Highway Hazards: A Curve in Safer Transportation A properly designed and maintained highway environment is a critical element in safe highway travel. For the most part, the American highway system is a tribute to modern engineering. However, improper or confusing designs and signals, roadside hazards and roads built to out-dated standards when vehicles were slower and less numerous all contribute to highway deaths and injuries. Almost every community in America has a "deadman's curve" or an intersection that is notorious for frequent and serious crashes. Safetyforum.com is making this section available to citizens, attorneys, insurers, police, emergency medical personnel and others who want to focus public attention on a serious highway hazard in their community. Use SafetyForum to leverage the power of the Internet to bring about change. Document each hazard with photographs of crashes, data about police and emergency medical responses, testimonials from people who have had crashes or who have lost friends or family members, post copies of letters you've sent to local and state highway officials and elected representatives. Be sure to note their words and deeds. Don't forget to clearly identify the state, county, city, community and, if possible, zip code, in which the hazard is located. Make your voice count for a safer highway environment in your own community. Contact us if we can be of service in any way.
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Take Back The Park Rally Print a flyer for this event. (This requires Adobe Acrobat reader.) Friends and Neighbors, You can take a stand and support Take Back the Park in the name of safety and recreation on April 6 and create a more walkable, user-friendly parkway. As an ad hoc coalition of neighbors, walkers, hikers, dog walkers, children, runners, cyclists, and environmentalists, we will call upon Montgomery County officials to implement immediately theEducation, Engineering and Enforcement solutions needed to return Sligo Creek Park to its original intended purpose as a park that is shared by all, as opposed to its current use as a high speed commuter shortcut freeway. We will gather at the site of Walt Penney's death and will dedicate our efforts to his memory and the memory of all victims of aggressive drivers. We will deliver the message to our elected representatives in Annapolis and Rockville to support legislation that increase penalties for aggressive drivers, and work to make our neighborhoods better places to live. Please invite your neighbors, PTAs, schoolchildren, friends, colleagues and elected representatives to join us on April 6 in Sligo Creek Park. We'll send out details on rally events, speakers, parking, and sign slogans soon. "Drive with Care. Walk with Caution." -- Safe Neighborhood Day, Washington Area Bicyclist Association, and others will sponsor this event. Rally Flyer: print this to handout to your friends and family or to post at your office or grocery store You will need Adobe Acrobat reader for this. Future updates will be posted on: TakeBackThePark@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: TakeBackThePark-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: TakeBackThePark-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Post message: TakeBackThePark@yahoogroups.com
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