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Nevadas New Strategic Highway Safety Plan: A Four-Year Push to Reduce Traffic Fatalities and Serious Injuries

The Nevada Department of Transportation has launched a comprehensive four-year plan, from 2026 to 2030, to significantly reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries across the state. This initiative, known as the Strategic Highway Safety Plan, will focus on targeted safety upgrades on high-risk roads, innovative road designs, and state programs aimed at changing driver behaviors.

The urgent need for this plan is evident in the crash data from 2019 to 2023, which resulted in 1,606 deaths and 6,948 serious injuries. Officials are using this data to identify top risks and set a goal to cut fatal and serious injury crashes by 35% by 2035. The long-term vision is to achieve zero fatalities by 2050, with progress monitored through federal reports on death counts, injury rates, and pedestrian crashes.

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