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MEMBERS of Ladysmith Speed Watch on Vancouver Island use a radar gun and.
digital display board to show a passing motorist how fast he is going. Every week,
throughout BC, hundreds of volunteers like these are out on the streets, en-
couraging their neighbors to slow down.

Volunteers remind
drivers to slow down

Several times a month, Terrace Speed
Watch volunteers put on high-visibility
vests and sel up shop at the side of the road
with a radar gun and a digital display board.

Their mission: to encourage drivers to
slow down.

Speed Watch is a program funded and
organized by ICBC in partnership with to-
cal police and community groups, Operat-
ing on residential streets, usually near
schools and playgrounds, the volunteers use
speed reader boards connected to radar
guns to show passing motorists exactly how
fast they are going. Not only do motorists
get instant feedback on their driving, but
Speed Watch volunteers also provide the
police and ICBC with useful data on speed-
ing patterns.

It’s an educational, neighborly approach,
as opposed to the “hard sell” of speeding
tickets. And studies show that it works.

Last year ICBC conducted research in
which student workers set up two Speed
Watch stations on the same street. They
found 74 per cent of vehicles that were
speeding at the first station slowed below
the speed limit before reaching the second
radar gun.

lion cars were checked by Speed Watch:
volunteers. A total of 75 community groups

pulting in an all-time high of 18,318
volunteer hours —almest double 1997,

In Terrace, about 25 Speed Watch
volunteers set up the speed board in school
zones and on any street where speedin
vehicles are a problem, .

Why target residential streets? The fact is,
‘most speed-related crashes don’t happen on
BC’s highways, but on local streets. Of all
unsafe-speed-related crashes attended by
police from 1995 10 1997, 70 per cent of in-
juries and 55 per cent of deaths happened
on urban or municipal roads with a speed
limit of 60 kph or less. That’s why ICBC
launched the Speed Watch program in the
early 1990s, The program has operated in
Terrace for two years.

ICBC president Thom Thompson, far
one, is convinced these citizen volunteers
are making a difference. "Speed Watch," he
says, "is a program that demonstrates how
community-based education and public
awareness activities help contribute to safer
roads."

Throughout BC in 1998, more than a mil- 5

participated in the program, with members | - ;

With =the summer
around the comer, it’s a
food time to review the
condition of your vehicle
before you take that long
toad trip,
Basic car maintenance
throughout the year such as
checking the engine oil and
tire pressure
recommended,
However, with the wanner
weather and longer road
uips during the spring and
sunimer, ICBC is reminding
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