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 […]
I was cleaning out some old files preparing for the launch of our newly remodeled website and came across this blog post. Even though it’s more than three years old it contains some great information that never gets old. Enjoy! January 29, 2015 …People ask me all the time how we can stop these senseless […]
LAS VEGAS (KXNT) – With two and a half months remaining, pedestrian fatalities in Clark County this year have already surpassed the total for all of 2016, continuing a disturbing rise in such fatalities over the past seven years. Through October 15, Las Vegas and the rest of Clark County had registered 59 pedestrian deaths […]
It’s May, and besides the great weather, I love May because we announce the winners of our annual Save A Life, Win A MacBook contest! This is our fourth year of the program and we had a whopping 285 entries! A panel of eight people judged the entries and had a really difficult time getting […]