Crash Reporting
September 10, 2026 – 10:00am to 12:00pm EST
PDHs AVAILABLE
2 Professional Development Hours can be granted for this course. No partial credit available. Attendees must attend at least 90% of the workshop to get 2 PDH’s.
WHAT THIS IS ABOUT
Crash Reporting is one of the Planning & Engineering Modules in the Road Safety Champion Program. Learn the role of crash data collection and reporting in reducing severe crashes and how such reporting benefits from cross-coordination among law enforcement, engineers, planners, and public health professionals. This training also reviews challenges with crash and injury surveillance, some nuances of crash data collection and reporting, and ways crash and injury data can be used to inform the design of safety interventions.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The primary target audience for this module is transportation, public health, and first responder personnel who have an interest in roadway safety but are not safety experts and are taking part in the Road Safety Champion Program.
INSTRUCTOR
David Metzger – Transportation Planning Engineer (retired) – Bristol Metropolitan Planning Organization/ City of Bristol Tennessee
Mr. Metzger worked on a variety of issues for the Bristol Transportation Planning Organization, such a long-range transportation planning and modeling. In his role as traffic engineer for the City of Bristol, Tennessee, his duties included the collection of data for speeds, delay, and volumes for a variety of studies, such as setting safe posted speeds of curves, determining on-street parking limits and signage based on sight distance, collection of data for traffic signal warrant analyses, neighborhood traffic studies, and collection of field data to apply for long-range transportation planning. He was involved in the selection of countermeasures based on those data findings. He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering and an M.S. degree in Transportation Engineering, both from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and retired after over 37 years of experience in Bristol. He is a Fellow of ITE.
AGENDA
– Safe System Paradigm and the Role of Law Enforcement Officers
– Crash Reporting Process, Data, and Reporting Data
– Crash Data Issues and Challenges
REGISTRATION FEE
This workshop is free for all participants.
REGISTRATION link: https://tennessee.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ryNpJe9lSxmyck9T7TuTwQ