Regional planning staff presented a draft regional safety action plan and a quantitative crash analysis and asked the Transportation Technical Advisory Committee to recommend acceptance of a regional safety-performance target methodology using the federal methodology applied at the MPO level.

"The safety action plan is the result of the Safe Streets and Roads for All award," Rich Crowder said, summarizing the grant-funded effort that requires a full draft by December and finalization by March 31, 2026. Anthony, a regional planner, presented a quantitative analysis of crash data from 01/01/2022 to 12/31/2024 drawn from the statewide crash repository and police reports. He said the analysis focused on serious and fatal crashes and that the region recorded 592 serious or fatal crashes in that period.

Anthony reported year-by-year totals of serious-or-fatal crashes: 214 in 2022, 177 in 2023 and 201 in 2024. He said the period included 127 fatalities, about 584 passengers and drivers involved with 107 fatalities among them; about 89 pedestrians with 27 pedestrian fatalities; and 11 cyclists with one cyclist fatality. "Roughly 17 percent of all serious and fatal crashes involve non-motorists," Anthony said.

Staff outlined contributing factors and spatial patterns: about half of crashes involved two-vehicle collisions (angle, front-to-front or front-to-rear), while other crashes involved fixed objects, pedestrians, cyclists or single-vehicle roadway departures. Anthony said roughly 70% of serious or fatal crashes occurred outside intersections and that roadway departure crashes made up 19% of incidents but accounted for 30–38% of fatal and serious-injury crashes.

The committee also discussed annual safety-performance targets required under the FAST Act (number of fatalities, fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, number of serious injuries and serious-injury rate, and non-motorized fatalities/serious injuries). For the first time the 15-town CNV MPO considered setting its own targets using the federal five-year moving-average methodology rather than endorsing statewide targets. Staff presented regional 2026 targets calculated using the federal method and explained they will adopt a linear trend line toward Vision Zero by 2060, recalculated every five years.

A motion to recommend acceptance of the proposed targets and methodology to the MPO was made, seconded and approved by voice vote. No roll-call tallies were provided in the meeting transcript.

Staff emphasized public outreach steps, including municipal-level three-page summary memos, mapping of crash locations, public presentations and a draft to be presented at the December TTEC meeting, with public comment and finalization targeted for March 31, 2026. Staff also confirmed the regional plan satisfies federal requirements that allow municipalities to use the regional safety action plan to apply for SS4A implementation funding if they lack a town-specific plan.