The goal of the Capital Regional District (CRD) Traffic Safety Commission (TSC) is to prevent injuries, save lives and contribute positively to a safer traffic environment (more info)

May 19, 2008- When will your bad habits catch up with you?

ICBC, the police and the Solicitor General’s office recently launched their new High Risk Driving campaign, focusing on speed. They are asking all drivers to do their part to make our roads safer and help keep insurance rates low and stable.

For more information, click the banner above or check out the news release.

September 19, 2007- Belated congratulations to Paweena Sukhawathanakul, the recipient of the 2007 Roy Watson Memorial Scholarship from the CRD Traffic Safety Commission and the University of Victoria.

As a fourth-year UVic student majoring in psychology and biology, Paweena created a 46-page book for parents of post-secondary students, which details the risks of binge-drinking and wild partying.  The book, which UVic has distributed to parents of current and arriving students, suggests strategies parents can employ to meaningfully discuss the issues with their sons and daughters.

As the recipient of the 2007 Roy Watson Memorial Scholarship, Paweena has received $1800 towards her fifth-year education at UVic.  Nominations for the 2008 Roy Watson Memorial Scholarship will be solicited in January.

August 6, 2007- Although extremely belated news, better late than never right?  The Traffic Safety Commission is currently focusing on increasing booster seat awareness (news release).

You may have seen the above signs on local vehicles.  For more information, please see this booster seat info sheet.

Call the Child Seat Information Line at 1-877-247-5551 with your questions.

Alternatively, link to the BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation for more information on car seat safety.

July 7, 2007- Thank you for all your responses thus far, please keep sending feedback!

Just an update - along with the final news release - we have the top 10 reasons people give for speeding.  Apparently some drivers are under the impression that they have the right to speed if there is a "good song on the radio" or if they are test driving a car!

In addition, the final statistics for the campaign are now available.

July 1, 2007- If you frequently drive the Malahat, you may have noticed this sign in the past two weeks:

The statistics have shown significant improvement over the two-week time period.  The percentage of drivers going more than 10kph over the limit has dropped from 91% to 18%, while the most dangerous drivers – those going more than 30kph over the limit – has dropped from 19% to just 1%. And the number of drivers going more than 40kph over – which garners a $483 fine for excessive speeding – has dropped from 8% a week ago, to almost none (1/300), with none +60kph over.

Statistics only tell part of the story, so we're also asking for feedback.  Specifically we're interested in finding out if:

1) Did you feel safer on the Malahat during the campaign?
2) Do you want a year-round Traffic Safety Unit on the Malahat?

Please send comments to Alan Perry.