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KDOT outlines Drive to 0 strategy after multi‑year drop in fatalities; focus shifts to serious injuries in urban roads
Summary
Kansas Department of Transportation officials told the Committee on Transportation that while preliminary 2024 fatalities were down about 11% from 2023, serious injuries are rising on urban and local roads; KDOT described a 5‑year strategic plan, safety corridor pilots, dashboards and grant activity.
Vanessa Spartan, Chief of Transportation Safety at the Kansas Department of Transportation, briefed the Committee on the Drive to 0 initiative and statewide traffic‑safety trends.
Spartan told the committee that preliminary tracking shows Kansas was down about 11% in 2024 fatalities compared with 2023 and that the 2024 preliminary count of 344 fatalities is the lowest recorded in the state’s archives since 1947, subject to trauma and investigative confirmation. She cautioned that 2025 counts are tracking higher compared with 2024.
“Over the last five years we've lost nearly 2,000 people to crashes on Kansas roads,” Spartan said, noting serious injuries—those that require hospitalization and may be disabling—remain a focus because improved post‑crash care can prevent fatal outcomes.
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