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NHTSA
Administrator Presents Awards for
Safety Accomplishments, at
Lifesavers Conference
March
29, 2004
Jeffrey
W. Runge, M.D., administrator of the U.S. Department of
Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA), today presented the 2004 NHTSA Awards for Public Service
to 13 individuals exemplifying high standards of achievement in the
field of traffic safety.
Dr.
Runge presented the awards in San Diego during Lifesavers 2004, a
national three-day conference on highway safety priorities.
More than 1,800 people are expected to participate in more than 85
workshops at the conference and view more than 90 exhibits of traffic
safety products and programs.
The
annual Lifesavers Conference addresses a wide range of safety
topics, from child passenger safety and occupant protection to
roadway and vehicle safety and technology. It offers the latest
information on advances in highway safety, highlights successful
programs, and calls attention to emerging safety issues. Participants
represent community traffic safety programs, state and local emergency
medical services, injury prevention programs, state and local law
enforcement, federal and state highway agencies, prosecutors and
judges, and the automotive and insurance industries.
The
following individuals and organizations received NHTSA awards for
public service:
Karen
Arnold-Burger
Presiding Judge, Overland Park Municipal Court
Overland Park, KS
For superior leadership and special dedication in educating youth and
parents on the hazards of underage drinking.
James
Baker
Executive Director and Founder
Institute for Public Strategies
San Diego, CA
For dedication and commitment to traffic safety and innovative programs
to reduce underage drinking and to increase safety belt use.
Erin
Breen
Safe Community Partnership Director
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
For dedication to promoting traffic safety campaigns and coalition
building throughout Nevada, and in particular Clark County, to increase
safety belt use and to reduce impaired driving.
Janet
Brooks
Child Advocacy Manager
Primary Children’s Medical Center
Salt Lake City, UT
For exemplary traffic safety advocacy throughout the state of Utah
through unparalleled commitment to preventing death and injury to child
passengers.
Lt.
Patrick Burke
Metropolitan Police Department
Washington, DC
For exemplary leadership in developing creative and progressive
programs to prevent traffic injuries and fatalities in the District of
Columbia.
Steven
R. Casstevens
Assistant Chief, Hoffman Estates Police Department
Hoffman Estates, IL
For significant contributions to the Illinois and U. S. child passenger
safety programs and for working tirelessly to involve the law
enforcement community in highway safety programs that reduce traffic
crashes and the resulting deaths and injuries.
Margaret
L. (Peggy) Hayashi
Executive Director, Alaska SAFE KIDS
Chugiak, AK
In recognition of outstanding leadership in forming the Alaska SAFE
KIDS Coalition and in being a founding member of the Alaska Injury
Prevention Center.
Officer
Edmund M. Hedge Jr.
New London Police Department
New London, CT
For outstanding support and promotion of highway safety programs in the
New England area, particularly in Connecticut, that resulted in an
improved quality of life.
Lt.
Timothy R. Pearson
North Augusta Police Department
North Augusta, SC
For outstanding leadership, dedication, and commitment to reducing
motor vehicle crashes, injuries, and fatalities on South Carolina’s
highways.
Mayor
Ralph Peterson Sr.
Pleasantville, NJ
In recognition of his dedication to saving lives in his community by
promoting safety belt and child safety seat use.
Jacqueline
Saburido
Concerned citizen and survivor of a drunk driving crash
Louisville, KY
For working tirelessly in the public spotlight despite injuries and
pain, and exerting valiant and relentless effort to keep impaired
driving tragedies from happening to others.
Autumn
Alexander Skeen
Parent, journalist, and nationally recognized booster seat advocate
Walla Walla, WA
For tireless dedication and persistence in working for increased use of
booster seats by older child passengers through passage of stronger
legislation.
Dr.
Patricia Fossum Waller (Posthumous)
Former Director, University of Michigan Transportation Research
Institute
An intrepid traffic safety advocate, a brilliant research scientist
with an unflagging lifelong determination to turn research into action,
an early architect of life saving graduated licensing for teens, and a
lifelong proponent of better approaches to elder driving, impaired
driving, pedestrian safety and heavy truck safety, Dr. Waller was a
true giant in the field of highway safety.
Source:
DOT News (NHTSA 12-04)
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