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About the 2025 Strategic Highway Safety Plan

Improving the safety of Colorado’s roadways to ensure everyone arrives home safely is a top priority for the state of Colorado. Last year 720 people died on our roadways. To address this issue, Colorado is developing a comprehensive, statewide plan - the Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). This updated SHSP is a collaborative and data-driven effort aimed at making Colorado’s roads safer for everyone. Your involvement and support in this process are crucial as we work together to save lives and prevent injuries. The SHSP identifies Colorado’s key safety needs and directs our investment decisions toward the most effective strategies and countermeasures for saving lives and preventing injuries. The SHSP will deliver strategies and supporting actions addressing similar concerns to support implementation of the most impactful safety investments for Colorado over the next 5 years.

Statistics of fatalities and serious injuries in Colorado and the Vision and Mission

This updated Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) is a collaborative and data-driven effort aimed at making Colorado’s roads safer for everyone. Your involvement and support in this process are crucial as we work together to save lives and prevent injuries.

Emphasis Areas

Emphasis Areas

  • Safety Culture

    Transportation Safety Culture serves as the foundation of the ATS and works to address the root causes of traffic safety issues in Colorado. By cultivating a safety culture that promotes positive social norms, only then can positive change be realized. Key areas that this Emphasis Area will focus on include organizational cultural change, legislation and policy, data management, and equity, diversity and inclusion.

  • Safe Roads

    Safe Roads identifies and implements best practices to improve the built environment with leading edge infrastructure and designs that facilitate safe trips for all modes and all roadway users.

  • Safe People

    Safe People focuses on strategies that protect vulnerable roadway users, including bicyclists, pedestrians, motorcyclists, young and mature drivers, roadway crews in work zones and first responders.

  • Safe Driving

    Safe Driving works to employ strategies that influence safe driver behaviors and addresses key issues such as: impaired driving, distracted driving, aggressive driving, speeding and occupant protection (e.g., seatbelt usage or helmet usage).

  • Post-Crash Care

    Post-Crash Care addresses strategies that will increase the survivability of crashes through efficient emergency response, improved access to emergency medical care, safe conditions for first responders and improved traffic incident management practices.