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Middlesex County symposium spotlights ‘Vision 0’ push to reduce traffic deaths
Summary
County officials, law enforcement and traffic safety experts gathered for a Vision 0 symposium where leaders described recent infrastructure projects, a data center, a Route 1 safety task force and a public education campaign to curb fatalities and serious injuries on county roads.
Middlesex County officials and road-safety experts convened at a county-sponsored Vision 0 symposium to press for infrastructure, data and programmatic changes intended to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries, county leaders said.
County Commissioner Director Rob Rios said the county is investing in data-driven infrastructure and technology to improve safety on county roads. "Our families, our neighbors, and everyone else who travels in or around Middlesex County deserves to arrive safely at their destination," Rios said during opening remarks.
The symposium opened with an extended keynote from journalist Jesse Singer, author of There Are No Such Things as Accidents, in which she urged officials to focus on changing dangerous road conditions rather than assigning blame for human errors. "None of this is random or accidental," Singer said. "There are no accidents," a formulation she used to argue for redesigns that make mistakes survivable.
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