Recipes for the Road

Posted on 11/12/2025 by Traffic Safety Team

The Florida Department of Transportation District Two’s Community Traffic Safety Program is excited to present our 28th Annual Recipes for the Road. For over a quarter of a century, we have worked to make a positive impact and help keep people safe on our roads during the holidays. This program focuses on education and outreach strategies to create safer communities. It is designed to work with local partners, including law enforcement, team members, restaurants, and bars, to promote responsible alcohol service and personal use at events and when hosting parties. The campaign supports safe transportation choices that encourage alternatives to driving while impaired.

Annual Recipes for the Road Book with Non-Alcoholic Drink Recipes

This year, we have a 12-page Recipes for the Road book available as a digital flipbook, a printable PDF download, and a limited quantity printed edition.

Celebrate Safely and Recipes for the Road

Recipes for the Road booklets and Celebrate Safely posters are available for District Two team members to distribute throughout our 18 Northeast Florida counties. Click here to place your order- while supplies last.

We thank our Traffic Safety Team members, partners, and volunteers who continue to promote traffic safety. They share our passion and goal of reducing alcohol-related traffic crashes and fatalities on our roadways. These people and organizations have been instrumental in the success of our Celebrate Safely, Designate a Driver program and the Recipes for the Road booklet!

Be Responsible – Do Not Drink and Drive

Thanksgiving through the New Year is a fun and festive time of year. There are many celebrations, family gatherings, festivals, football pre-game tailgating, and holiday parties throughout this fall and winter. They are all best enjoyed when we celebrate responsibly. Please always drive safely and sober.

Share and enjoy all these mocktails, food recipes, and traffic safety tips. Click here to view our mocktail and food recipe videos.

Celebrating Recipes for the Road since 1998

2022’s 25th-Anniversary Celebration Highlight Video

Favorite Hot Caramel Mocha Mocktail Recipe

New, Easy No-Back Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls

Last year’s 27th Annual Recipes for the Road digital flipbook

Digital Flipbooks of our 25th and 26th Recipes for the Road

Summer Celebrate Safely

Posted on 06/29/2024 by Traffic Safety Team

The FDOT District Two Community Traffic Safety Program created a Summer Celebration Safely edition of “Recipes for the Road”

We promote simple safety messages along with delicious, non-alcoholic “mocktail” drink recipes, heart-healthy recipes, and food recipes. Our goal is to promote positive driving behaviors year-round and reduce impaired-driving crashes, injuries, and fatalities on our roadways.

Please help spread the message of celebrating safely with these cool summer “Recipes for the Road.” Download and share these traffic safety tips and recipes. Remember to tag us @trafficsafetyteam on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, or @trafficsafetyfl on Twitter and Pinterest. Hashtag #celebratesafely #trafficsafetyteam

Summer Celebrate Safely Digital Recipe Cards:

summer celebrate safely recipe card — Tangy Orange Smoothie

Click to download and print or post on social media. Provided by FDOT Community Traffic Safety Program.

In 2021, we distributed Summer Celebrate Safely “Recipes for the Road” cards printed as double-sided, 5.5″ x 8.5″ handouts in full color. They were available for our Northeast Florida Traffic Safety Team members, partners, organizations, and local communities.

In 2019, there were almost 2,000 reported crashes, with 109 fatalities involving impaired driving throughout the Northeast Florida district. That is 109 deaths that could have been prevented. This summer and throughout the year, remember to celebrate safely always!

Summer Mocktail Recipe Videos:

Mocktails • Recipes • Safety Tips

For more impaired driving information and resources, make sure to check out the following:

Drive safe. Drive sober. If you plan to drink, designate a driver or schedule a cab/ride-share/Uber/Lyft for a safe ride home.

UNF Traffic Safety Outreach

Posted on 03/05/2024 by Traffic Safety Team

FDOT District Two Community Traffic Safety Program joined forces with the University of North Florida Student Government, the UNF Police Department, and the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department in Duval. The UNF traffic safety outreach promoted safe driving behaviors with students. This great little pop-up event supported Target Zero to help eliminate deaths on our roadways.

Collaboration with UNF College to Save Lives

With Spring Break coming up soon, this was perfect timing. Students got to steer through a course with impairment simulation goggles and chat about driving safely for UNF’s Safety Week! The #TargetZeroFL weekly planners and to-do note pads were a big hit.

Special thanks to Duval Traffic Safety Team member Karen Livingston with the UNF Police Department. Her experience, dedication, and joy are evident among students on the UNF campus. She set up the Drunk Goggle Obstacle Course and Walk the Line for students to try the impaired driver simulations using Fatal Vision goggles.

Taking a Turn Through the Obstacles

Each little orange cone represented a pedestrian, and quite a few did get run over! Luckily, no one was hurt while test-driving with the “drunk goggles.” It was great to hear the students committing to driving safely. Of course, our Jacksonville Fire and Rescue crew is on board with safety on the road.

Jacksonville Fire Rescue traffic safety outreach

Traffic Safety Targeting Aggressive Driving

Proud UNF alumni and mother of current UNF student pose for a photo op! In the past, we highlighted this local teen driver. He was caught speeding well above the limit, and as part of his punishment, he helped us make a short video with his “Reasons NOT to SPEED.” Today, we are happy to announce he’s setting an excellent example with ZERO violations or crashes. Let’s keep up the good work!