2024 Annual Report with Crash Data

Posted on 04/24/2025 by Traffic Safety Team

We’re pleased to share the FDOT District Two Community Traffic Safety Program (CTSP) 2024 Annual Report. It includes traffic safety highlights, engineering articles, community outreach, and crash data for our 18 counties in Northeast Florida. This report is a valuable resource for our team members, partner agencies, and community stakeholders. It’s a helpful tool as we work together to improve roadway safety.

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CTSP 2024 Annual Report with Crash Data and Program Highlights

Inside the report, are key achievements, reports, and crash statistics. These insights are an important part of our ongoing efforts to reduce traffic-related injuries and fatalities and foster a “traffic safety culture”—one that prioritizes safety, promotes responsible behavior on the roads, and encourages collaboration.

In 2024, our Community Traffic Safety Teams made significant strides in addressing local engineering concerns, distributing safety materials, and expanding educational outreach. These accomplishments—guided by data and aligned with Florida’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan—underscore our shared commitment to Target Zero: zero deaths on our roadways.

📄 Click here for the CTSP 2024 Annual Report PDF or view the digital flipbook below.

Crash Data Summaries by County

This year, we’ve developed individual crash fact sheets for each of the 18 counties in District Two from FDOT Target Zero’s Signal Four Analytics. These sheets include data on crashes, fatalities, and serious injuries from 2024 and the previous four years. Each fact sheet highlights trends based on the Strategic Highway Safety Plan. For example, they break down crashes by:

Emphasis areas
Crashes by month, day of week, and time of day
Crashes by age groups
Location heat map of crashes

These summaries provide key takeaways that help inform our targeted safety messaging and initiatives, ensuring we focus efforts where they’re needed most.

District Two Crash Fact Sheets:

Together, we’re making Northeast Florida’s roads safer—one data point, one partnership, and one action at a time.

Previous District Two Annual Reports:

2023 Annual Report with Crash Data

Crash Data and 2022 Annual Report

Six-Year Crash Fact Report

Defensive Driving Tools for Safety

Posted on 08/24/2022 by Traffic Safety Team

Defensive Driving Tools for Safety was written and presented by Jeff Hohlstein, a Community Traffic Safety Team member in Clay County, Florida. This educational driving and traffic safety presentation is geared toward aging road users. However, these are essential tips and reminders for all drivers.

Defensive Driving Tools for Safety Presentation:

Learn about setting side view mirrors for blind spots. Understand the importance of keeping a safe following distance and obeying the speed limit. Maintaining a safe following distance is a good idea for all drivers to keep in mind. While this rule is flexible and isn’t always appropriate in every driving situation, it can foster good driving habits that reduce the risk of rear-end collisions and similar accidents. In addition, being a safe driver can earn discounts on auto insurance premiums.

Gain an understanding of observing a vehicle’s front wheels, approaching intersections safely, and scanning through a signalized intersection. Learn how to use the OODA Loop while driving. OODA is an acronym for Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. When you do it again and again, it becomes a constant decision loop. Retired Colonel John Boyd, USAF, developed this rapid decision-making tool. Today, OODA is used by many Armed Forces and Police agencies and can be used as a defensive driving tool for motorists.

Most people set their side view mirrors straight back and miss their blind spot completely. The video covers how to set your side view mirrors to cover your blind spot.

This video discusses how to use OODA to stay safe while driving. Defensive driving is much about managing space around your vehicle. The most controllable area you have is your safe following distance. OODA will help you do that right. OODA will also help you develop scan patterns for navigating intersections and avoiding a collision when someone unsafely enters your right-of-way.

Uses of OODA in defensive driving:

Observe > Following distance, traffic patterns; intersections of all kinds; vehicles around you.
Orient > Calculate the following distance; identify other potential conflicts.
Decide > Action to maintain safe following distance; plan to avoid those other conflicts.
Act > Establish/reestablish safe following distance; avoid those other conflicts whether or not the crash would have been your fault.
Do it again > Practice OODA until it’s as natural as driving itself.

Jeff Hohlstein presenting Defensive Driving Tools for Safety

Click here to read Jeff Hohlstein’s first article, Three Defensive Driving Tools to Avoid Great Impact, and what the video presentation from 2020.

Florida Traffic Safety Coalitions

Posted on 06/14/2021 by Traffic Safety Team

Florida’s statewide traffic safety coalitions and programs focus on reducing serious injuries and fatalities on our roadways through teamwork and partnerships at the local, regional, and statewide levels. These coalitions support Florida’s State Highway Strategic Plan (SHSP) emphasis areas and bring partners together to analyze data, create strategic action plans, implement programs, and monitor performance.

Coalitions Support Florida’s State Highway Strategic Plan

Traffic safety is most effective when employing measures of engineering, education, enforcement, and emergency response, as well as information intelligence, innovation, community insight, investment, and policy. Coalition members include community officials, agencies, advocacy groups, business partners, and membership organizations.

2021 Florida Traffic Safety Coalition and Resource Center Contact List and Information

Florida’s Coalitions:

Impaired Driving Coalition:

The FIDC was formed in 2009 to identify and prioritize impaired driving issues and develop a plan to maximize the State’s ability to impact these crashes.

Ride Smart – Motorcycle Safety Coalition:

Ride Smart Florida is a resource for motorcyclists that includes education and training, safety strategies, motorcycle data, and more. It provides support to local communities and motorcycle clubs through access to public service announcements, motorcycle‐related statistics, rider education information, and links to other websites related to motorcycle safety.

Occupant Protection Coalition:

The FOPC was formed to identify and prioritize Florida’s occupant protection issues by reviewing proven strategies and discussing promising new practices.

Alert Today Alive Tomorrow – Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Coalition:

FDOT’s “Alert Today Alive Tomorrow” campaign is presented via TV, radio, social media, transit advertising, local education, and enforcement activities. The message that “Safety Doesn’t Happen by Accident” is a reminder for all roadway users. Pay attention and follow the rules of the road.

Safe Mobility for Life Coalition:

This coalition’s mission is to implement a strategic plan to increase safety, access, and mobility for aging road users and eliminate fatalities and reduce serious injuries.

Teen Safe Driving Coalition:

This coalition brings together community members to build a culture of safe teen driving by engaging, educating, and mobilizing everyone. Develop and improve safe teen driving programs, practices, and activities.

Traffic Records Coordinating Committee:

This committee brings together agencies that are interested in reducing traffic injuries and deaths by improving the timeliness, accuracy, completeness, uniformity, integration, and accessibility of traffic records data.

Florida Traffic Safety Resource Centers:

Florida Occupant Protection Resource Center

Occupant Protection Resource Center:
This center was created to be a one-stop resource center that provides resources. Equipment, educational, and promotional materials on all aspects of occupant safety.

Pedestrian & Bicycling Safety Resource Center:
This center promotes safe pedestrian and bicycling activities for citizens and visitors, young and old. Through educational materials and information, and advocacy with state advocacy groups.

Northeast FDOT CTSP and the Florida traffic safety coalitions plan and maintain projects. They also review crash data to evaluate the SHSP progress. Members identify relationships between contributing factors. These include time/day, demographics, driver behaviors, environmental and roadway conditions, high-risk locations, and emerging issues in key emphasis areas.

Florida’s traffic safety coalitions turn strategy into action.

In conclusion, Florida’s traffic safety coalitions bring people together. They use data to guide decisions. And they focus on one shared goal—saving lives.

Moreover, these partnerships strengthen every part of the State Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). They connect engineering, education, enforcement, and emergency response. They also support innovation, community insight, and smart investment. As a result, communities identify risks faster and respond with proven solutions.

At the same time, each coalition plays a key role. They address impaired driving, occupant protection, pedestrian and bicycle safety, teen driving, motorcycle safety, aging road users, and traffic data systems. Together, they create a stronger, safer roadway network across Florida.

Most importantly, progress depends on continued collaboration. Stay involved. Use the resources. Share the message. Support local efforts.

Because when we work together, we move closer to Target Zero—zero fatalities and serious injuries on Florida’s roadways.

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