Ready to make a difference on the roads? If you’re passionate about traffic safety, we want you to join our community! Whether you’re concerned about seat belt safety, the dangers of impaired driving, or the importance of child safety seats, we’ve got a place for you. Our organization tackles a range of critical issues, including:
- Drunk/Impaired driving and its consequences
- The risks of distracted driving
- Seat belt safety
- And many other traffic safety topics that matter
By becoming part of our action-oriented organization, you’ll be joining a community of like-minded individuals who care deeply about creating safer roads for everyone. Together, we can drive change and save lives. Get involved today and let’s make a difference!
Membership is open to anyone interested in reducing death and injury from vehicle crashes on our highways. Join Drive Safe HR.
Get It Together High School
Seat Belt Challenge
Since 1995
Get It Together High School Seat Belt Challenge is a program led by Drive Safe Hampton Roads and supported by other traffic safety groups. Local high schools compete to raise students’ awareness of the importance of wearing seat belts every time they ride in a vehicle.
Participants use a variety of strategies to encourage their fellow students to “Buckle Up!” Tactics included pledge drives during lunch bells and having the Grim Reaper “take” a student every 15 minutes during the school day. Other efforts involve making buckle-up videos and developing cheers for sporting events.
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Old, Used, Borrowed and
Abused Child Safety Seat Round-Up
Since 1989
Old, Used, Borrowed, and Abused Child Safety Seat Round-up began in February 1989. Drive Safe HR, along with their community partners — AAA Tidewater Virginia, Walmart, DMV’s Virginia Highway Safety Office, Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, WVEC TV-13, and Hoffman Beverage — team up with the community to remove old, used, borrowed, and abused child safety seats.
During the month of February, Hampton Roads residents can drop off their worn-out child safety seats at all Southside and Peninsula Walmart Supercenters, Hampton Roads area DMV Customer Service Centers, and AAA offices on the Southside and Peninsula. Walmart provides a $5 reward for each safety seat by giving gift cards to those who turn in their safety seats. The materials from the old safety seats are recycled to help save the environment.
Upcoming Events
Impaired Driving Prevention Events
Impaired Driving Prevention events include programs to educate the public regarding the dangers of driving impaired, such as alcohol/drug use, underage drinking, aggressive driving, fatigued, and distracted driving. Members also participate in 757 Sober Ride and Virginia’s Checkpoint Strikeforce, a multi-jurisdictional program in Virginia to combat drunk driving.
The Intoxiclock® is an interactive tool used to demonstrate how drinking different types and amounts of alcoholic beverages raises a person’s Blood Alcohol Concentration (B.A.C.) given their weight, gender and drinking pattern and the time it takes for the body to metabolize that alcohol. Drive Safe Hampton Roads uses this interactive tool at conferences, festivals, and company-related events.
The Get It Together Challenge
has positively influenced the
traffic safety habits of over
Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Appreciation Day has been promoting highway safety for
Child Safety Seat
Round-up began
in February 1989.
John T. Hanna Awards
Recognizing Outstanding
Traffic Safety Advocates
757 Sober Rides
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Abused Seats Recycled
Commercial Motor Vehicle
Driver Appreciation Day
Since 1993
Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Appreciation Day is an event that brings Drive Safe Hampton Roads and Hampton Roads’ law enforcement motor carrier teams together to distribute goodies during an “alternate type” of roadway safety regulation stop. These events are held at the beginning of the busy winter season to promote highway safety.
Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Appreciation Day began on the Southside in 1993.
This year the Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Appreciation Day will be held at the I-664 Monitor Merrimac Tunnel Inspection Station in Suffolk, VA.
John T. Hanna Awards
Since 1991
In 1991, (34 years) Concerned Citizens Advocating Traffic Safety instituted the John T. Hanna Awards. Named after Virginia’s “Father of Transportation Safety” these awards honor those who share Mr. Hanna’s tireless dedication and commitment to improving traffic safety on Virginia’s highways.
John T. Hanna remains the cornerstone of transportation safety, as we know it today. The unparalleled zeal for safety that hallmarks his career is an inspiration to every parent, police officer, judge, teacher, and citizen who is committed to saving lives through traffic safety.
If you know of an individual or organization working to impact the reduction of death and injury on your highways, you are invited to submit nominations to recognize these outstanding traffic safety advocates – The JOHN T. HANNA Awards: Recognizing Traffic Safety Excellence in Hampton Roads