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June 27, 2022
Virginia DMV Requests Increased Highway Safety Education, Messaging

Dear highway safety partner,

The Virginia DMV Highway Safety Office requests your continued partnership in decreasing traffic fatalities across the Commonwealth by increasing your highway safety education and messaging efforts. Below is the preliminary fatality data for the top 10 jurisdictions in Virginia, as of June 9, 2022. There have been a total of 370 statewide fatalities so far this year.  

Top Driver's Actions:

• Failure to maintain control of the vehicle, running off the road
• Speed
• Did not have the right-of-way

It is especially important that we get more education and messaging to Virginia residents in these areas, as these jurisdictions have contributed to 31% of our fatalities this year. Please join the Virginia DMV in our mission to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities on Virginia roadways by increasing your educational efforts in these ten jurisdictions and sharing the traffic safety resources below through your social media channels, via email, and in your local communities.

Traffic Safety Marketing Materials

DRIVE SMART Virginia

Drive Safe Hampton Roads

WRAP's "Act Like It" anti-impaired driving social media toolkit

Virginia Driver Education and Traffic Safety (VADETS)

Partners for Safe Teen Driving

Chesterfield SAFE's Drunk and Impaired Driving Prevention

CarSafetyNow.org -Teen and Young Driver Safety