Dallas Police are stepping up enforcement of reckless and drunk-driving, however because the “Home for the Holidays” program takes maintain town is making an attempt to reverse a for much longer time period pattern of harmful driving on Dallas roadways.
According to DPD, 228 died on metropolis roads in 2020. So far in 2021, that determine sits at 155 with greater than one-third (53) of whole deaths coming from pedestrians.
Dr. Courtney Edwards is the Director of Trauma Community Outreach at Parkland Hospital.
“Even with all that reduction in traffic (in 2020) we still did not have a day where no one was killed on Texas roadways,” Edwards mentioned. “We realize that what we can provide inside the hospital walls is really very miniscule compared to how we can really try to impact injury and violence within our communities.”
Edwards says it’s why Parkland is one neighborhood accomplice supporting the objective set by town of Dallas of eliminating visitors deaths and decreasing accidents by half by 2030 as half of the Vision Zero program.
Some of it’s engineering, enhancing visitors alerts, lane development and crosswalks on metropolis streets.
More instant for DPD is tripling of officers within the visitors division devoted to combating reckless driving and prioritizing DWI arrests from November by way of January.
Mike Mata with the Dallas Police Association mentioned he wish to see this system expanded sooner or later offered DPD has sufficient officers. For this 12 months, he’s as soon as once more urging those that plan to drink to easily designate a driver or use one of many rideshare choices.
“It’s about not destroying lives, including your own life,” Mata added.