Light-Up Traffic Signs In Your District

So far this year in Missouri, there have been nearly 700 deaths on the highways. Of the deaths on Missouri’s roads in 2012, 65% of them weren’t wearing safety belts. Probabilities are extremely high that they were also speeding, or the automobiles that struck them were doing that. Many individuals that are killed are doing no single thing wrong, but are hit by a vehicle driven by someone who is tired, drunk, texting or speeding—sometimes, sadly, more than one of those.

None of us can control any driver but ourselves, but the employment of lit signs for traffic calming can help to attract the attention of each driver and make accidents less sure.

Lit signs on Missouri’s roads tell folks to buckle up because it’s the law. The signs change their message slightly each 1 or 2 seconds. This reminds drivers of the law and makes them pay attention to the changing display, getting the message thru to them much more. There’s no real assurance that the 65% of fatal injuries not wearing their seatbelts would have survived had they been wearing them. But percentages are good that at least many of them would have. For whatever reasons, they didn’t get the message.

There will always be a percentage of people who just don’t get the message, whether it’s to wear a lifesaving seatbelt or to stay within the speed limit. The great majority of people, nonetheless, when faced with a changing display on a lit sign will respond to it. If it is giving instruction like buckle up or slow down, they’ll reply in the correct way.

Signs that can flash the words “SLOW DOWN” together with a sad-face emoticon to help reinforce the idea to slow down when somebody’s speeding will customarily cause the driver to slow. In fact, plain signs that merely show the speed and flash it if it is above the limit customarily cause most drivers to slow down. This prevents speeding before it starts, and decreases the risk of accidents more.

Click here to find out how you, as a part of your local government, can help reduce the number of roadside deaths with TraffiCalm signs.