Drive safe, the 100 Deadliest Days are upon us

The pursuing is simply a property merchandise from Idaho Transportation Department.

BOISE— Memorial Day play is shaping up to beryllium a engaged recreation clip successful nan Gem State. Idaho is astir to participate nan 100 Deadliest Days connected Idaho roads- nan clip betwixt Memorial Day and Labor Day erstwhile location is simply a spike successful fatal and superior wounded crashes. Seventy* group person been killed successful crashes connected Idaho roads truthful acold this twelvemonth — including nan caller clang connected US 20 successful Bonneville County that tragically killed six group successful 1 vehicle. The Idaho Office of Highway Safety (OHS) is imploring drivers to beryllium vigilant and thrust engaged this Memorial Day play and each summer.

“We telephone this play nan 100 Deadliest Days, but it would beryllium awesome to beryllium proven wrong. Make it safer retired location for yourself and others by slowing down, putting down distractions, buckling up, and readying a sober thrust home,” said OHS programme head Josephine Middleton.

While it would look for illustration wintertime is nan astir vulnerable clip to drive, driving is much vulnerable successful summer. This seems paradoxical. Why would roads beryllium much vulnerable successful summertime erstwhile upwind conditions are better? During nan summertime much group are retired of schoolhouse aliases work, connected vacation, and celebrating starring to higher rates of risky behaviour down nan instrumentality for illustration impaired driving, distracted driving, and speeding.

Graph: Fatal crashes by period 2018-2022 | Courtesy Idaho Transportation Department.

This summertime OHS and its partners crossed nan authorities will activity together to punctual group to make safer choices whenever they are connected nan road. Some of these activities will see partnering pinch rule enforcement agencies to get vulnerable drivers disconnected nan road, nationalist consciousness campaigns, and organization outreach events.

“We person a batch of awesome partners who thief america make Idaho’s roads a safer place, but we can’t conscionable trust connected them,” Middleton said. “We tin each do a amended occupation of looking retired for each different connected our roads and make it safely done this summer.”

2024 Fatality information*:

70 group killed successful postulation crashes to date

• 58 group successful vehicles
• 5 group connected motorcycles
• 4 group connected foot
• 1 personification connected a bicycle
• 2 group connected ATVs/UTVs/etc.

2024 Fatalities by county:

District 1

• Bonner – 2
• Kootenai – 2
• Benewah – 1
• Boundary & Shoshone – 0

District 2

• Nez Perce – 4
• Idaho – 2
• Latah – 1
• Lewis – 1
• Clearwater – 0

District 3

• Ada – 7
• Canyon – 9
• Elmore – 1
• Valley – 1
• Washington – 2
• Payette – 2
• Owyhee – 1
• Adams, Boise & Gem – 0

District 4

• Lincoln – 3
• Cassia – 7
• Jerome – 3
• Twin Falls – 1
• Blaine – 1
• Minidoka – 1
• Camas & Gooding – 0

District 5

• Franklin – 2
• Bingham – 3
• Bannock -2
• Oneida – 1
• Power, Bear Lake & Caribou – 0

District 6

• Bonneville – 8
• Custer – 1
• Madison – 1
• Lemhi, Butte, Clark, Jefferson, Fremont, & Teton – 0

*All 2024 information is preliminary and taxable to change.