The Strategic Highway Safety Plan for Washington State has been finalized, approved by regulators, and signed by the Governor. It guides the state in an integrated approach to reducing traffic-related deaths and injuries.

All states are required to develop such plans. In Washington, our plan is identified by another name: Target Zero. That is an achievable strategy to reduce highway deaths in Washington to zero by the year 2030. The trend is already downward. If we changed nothing, we would expect to hit zero fatalities in 2077. The goal of Target Zero is to simply move that date up to 2030.

The first two steps toward reaching Target Zero are reducing speed, and removing impaired drivers from our roads. The entire plan can be read at:

Washington's Strategic Highway Safety Plan: Target Zero