Learn About MD’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan
The Maryland Highway Safety Office will hold sessions on traffic safety behaviors as it works on the state’s 2026-2030 Strategic Highway Safety Plan. Residents are invited to share feedback during a series of in-person and virtual meetings held throughout the state.
A local meeting will be held at 6pm February 12, 2025, at the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland at 15045 Burnt Store Road in Hughesville.
Workshops will be held in a hybrid format, in-person with a virtual attendance option.
The safety plan is a statewide, coordinated, comprehensive, traffic safety plan to reduce highway fatalities and serious injuries on all public streets and highways. It establishes overall goals and objectives, as well as strategies within each of six key areas. SHSP is a working document covering the years 2016 through 2020.
The plan was formulated after years of improved highway safety. Despite increases in vehicle miles traveled, reported traffic crashes declined in Maryland, dropping to a historic low of 96,392 in 2009. Between 2005 and 2009, the number of fatalities decreased by 10.4%, overall injuries decreased by 14.4%, and serious injuries declined by 39.9%.
To continue this positive trend, Maryland updated the plan in 2010 under the direction of the SHSP Management and Implementation Teams.
Learn more here.
