2010 GHSA Annual Meeting: Technology and Highway Safety: What's Driving Our Future?

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2010 Annual Meeting
Technology and Highway Safety:
What's Driving Our Future?

Kansas City, Mo., September 26 - 29

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General Information

The 2010 GHSA Annual Meeting examined technology’s benefits and challenges, bringing together highway safety professionals to share best practices and strategies.

Meeting Materials

News & Media

News Release: National Highway Safety Award Winners Honored in Kansas City (Sept. 27)
GHSA Maintains Distracted Driving Policy (Sept. 26)
News Release: Highway Safety Experts Meeting in Kansas City (Sept. 22)
Media Coverage
- Crawford County students cited for seat belt program (Oct. 4, The Joplin Globe - Joplin, Mo.)
- Laws are not dissuading drivers from texting, report finds (The Washington Post)
- Study finds texting laws haven't reduced crashes (Sept. 28, The Associated Press)
- Texting bans may add risk to roads (Sept. 28, USA Today)
- Study calls into question state bans on texting while driving (Sept. 28, The Kansas City Star)
- Study dismisses texting bans’ effect (Sept. 28, The Boston Globe)
- Do texting bans contribute to crashes? (Sept. 28, WTOP - Washington, D.C.)
- Highway fatalities fall in Kansas and Missouri (Sept. 27, The Kansas City Star)
- State officials put aside total ban on drivers' use of cellphones (Sept. 27, The Washington Post)
- Highway safety official honored (Sept. 27, The News Journal - Wilmington, Del.)

A special thank you

to the Missouri Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Division, and the Kansas Department of Transportation, Bureau of Traffic Safety, for their generous support of the 2010 Annual Meeting.

... and to the members of the GHSA Annual Meeting Committee:

Pete Bodyk, Kansas
Robert Dallas, Georgia
Leanna Depue, Missouri, Host
Chuck DeWeese, New York
Pam Fischer, New Jersey, Chairman
Mary Hunter, Idaho
Cheri Marti, Minnesota
Tina O’Grady, Ohio
Traci Pearl, Nevada
Terry Pence, Texas
Kendell Poole, Tennessee
Michael Stout, Illinois
Andrea Summers, Delaware
Marianne Trussell, Florida
Bridget White, Arkansas