I.C.B.C. Road Safety Program

Christine Kirby spoke at our September 24^th meeting about the I.C.B.C. Road Safety Program.   I.C.B.C. and the R.C.M.P. are working together to analyze road safety problems and develop programs to save lives, prevent accidents and lower the costs associated to these issues. Their analysis of these problems has surfaced the need for a variety of programs at specific times of the year.  For example, impaired driving can be a consistent problem but has specific peak periods, such as long weekends and the Christmas/New Year’s period that may need more attention or actions to handle. Distracted driving, such as cell phone use and texting while driving, has become a more serious problem that is being addressed by increased police enforcement and information advertising from I.C.B.C.   Information about the Road Safety Program is available at the I.C.B.C. website http://www.icbc.com/road-safety/Pages/Default.aspx   (the photo shows Christine with Rotarian Rob Bauml)