Our Annual Save A Life, Win A MacBook Campaign Has Been Extended. New Deadline, May 1, 2020! In February, students in southern Nevada were invited to design and submit a poster for the annual chance to educate the community and potentially win a MacBook. The original due date for submissions through schools was yesterday; because […]
Due to the COVID-19 Virus we are postponing this event. Please check back for updates. — In late 2019, we gathered with community advocates to laydown a chalk outline where a pedestrian was killed in 2018 and the first half of 2019, we marked 91 outlines. Three of the 91 were placed by the mothers […]
On Wednesday, February 19th at 3 pm, we are offering a focus group whose purpose is making positive changes in our program. This group will include all the laws and issues you need to know to not get a pedestrian citation. Then we will continue with participants discussing thoughts on pedestrian behavior statements. We will […]
April Stewart / Mary Lily was on her way home, just before Thanksgiving, 2015. A compassionate soul, Mary had gone to meet a friend who needed a sympathetic ear, and was on her skateboard, heading home for dinner. Mary was crossing Craig Road, in a marked crosswalk, and had made it to the last travel […]
On Thursday, June 20th people from across Clark County gathered at the Tam Alumni Center on the campus of UNLV. They came together to learn more about potential solutions to the traffic safety problems we face in our community. Most of the attendees spent their morning pouring over crash aftermath data presented by experts from […]
If you have visited this spot in 2018 at all, you know that last year was the worst on record for pedestrians in Nevada, and in Clark County. Officially, 100 people in NV died crossing streets or standing on sidewalks in 2018, 78 of them in Clark County. We always see an increase in […]
The First Annual Safe Santa rode into the Boulevard Mall on an awesome antique Fire Truck on Saturday, November 24th. Tons of kids were there to see him and tell Santa what was on their wish list for 2018. Plenty of community partners were there too, to educate these children and families, because at the […]
If you are out walking this time of year, I don’t need to tell you that there is much less light on the street. This time of year is critical for those on foot, because there is so much more time when you are walking when it is dark: high school students leaving in the […]
Nationally, old Navy celebrated their annual “Super Safety Event” across the USA on September 29th, by focusing on childhood safety. Stores across the country partnered with the Center for Missing and Exploited Children and with community partners to make their city safer. Ped Safe Nevada was lucky to partner with the Boulevard Mall and the […]
People on foot are the most vulnerable road users of all, and Clark County walkers are in the most danger in our state. In 2017, 78 pedestrians lost their lives, 10 of them were not in the street, but on the sidewalk. While overall fatalities in Clark County were down, pedestrian fatalities rose almost 38 […]