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KDOT outlines Drive to 0 plan after five-year crash totals show nearly 1,920 deaths
Summary
KDOT’s chief of transportation safety, Vanessa Sparner, told the Committee on Transportation that Kansas has recorded about 1,920 fatalities and more than 7,500 serious injuries over the past five years and highlighted the Drive to 0 coalition’s five-year strategic plan and local implementation programs.
Vanessa Sparner, chief of transportation safety at the Kansas Department of Transportation, told the Committee on Transportation that "Over the last 5 years, 1,920 people lost their lives on Kansas roads," and that more than 7,500 people were seriously injured in that period.
Sparner said Kansas has trended downward in fatalities over the past five years and recorded its lowest-ever fatality total in state-recorded history, which she noted goes back to 1947. She cautioned, however, that serious-injury crashes have risen in urban and local roads and that anomalous multi-fatality crashes early in 2025 (two eight-fatality crashes) temporarily inflated that year’s totals.
The Drive to 0 strategic plan is a living, 30-page document with a two-page executive summary that the coalition approved last May and that received subsequent review by the KDOT secretary and the Federal Highway Administration,…
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