Every few seconds, a traffic incident responder puts his or her life on the line to aid crash victims and to safely and quickly clear crashes as well as other traffic incidents that could otherwise result in a secondary crash. Every year traffic incident responders are killed in the line of duty or bear life-long scars from life-altering injuries.
Crash Responder Safety Week affords a unique opportunity for every Traffic Incident Management (TIM) community member to make a difference individually and jointly for roadway safety during traffic incidents. Traffic incident response is a collaborative effort engaging EMS, law enforcement, fire and rescue, public works, towing and recovery, transportation, and other disciplines. TIM communities across the nation come together this week by teaching each other and all road users about our common goal and responsibility for safe, quick roadway clearance. TIM communities use this week to:
The Federal Highway Administration began commemorating CRSW in year 2016, although back then it was called National Traffic Incident Responder Awareness Week (NTIRAW). CRSW takes place annually the second full week in November. Today CRSW is used by national associations, state departments of transportation and departments of public safety, metropolitan planning organizations, and local departments of public works, cities, and individual responders to bring attention to traffic incident responder safety.
Monday, Nov 17, 2025 – Safety Starts With You – Slow Down and Move Over!
Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025 – Driver Education
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2025 – Responder Training
Thursday, Nov 20, 2025 – More Than a Crash
Friday, Nov 21, 2025 – Slow Down, Move Over
The CRSW Outreach Toolkit will be available before the week’s events to help you with public education and social media messaging. Access the Toolkit on the CRSW website.
Drive Safe Nevada
NDOT currently places “Wrong Way” signs on all freeway ramps to notify drivers errantly entering in the wrong direction. As a pilot program, NDOT is installing additional flashing warning signals and detection systems on certain interstate and freeway off-ramps.
The wrong way driver alert system uses radar and closed-circuit cameras to automatically detect vehicles entering in the wrong direction, activating two sets of red flashing wrong-way signs on the ramp. As a highly-visible additional indication to stop drivers from entering the wrong way, the first set of signs stands four feet high instead of the standard seven-foot sign height to more readily reach the lower eye level of sleepy or impaired drivers.
The Transportation Research Board reports an average of 360 deaths nationwide every year due to wrong-way driver crashes. In more than half of wrong-way crashes, wrong-way drivers are impaired by alcohol.
Between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2018, there were 135 wrong-way crashes in Nevada resulting in 22 fatalities. Nevada is one of a handful of state DOTs testing the wrong-way driver detection systems. Preliminary research shows that such systems are 80% effective in stopping wrong-way drivers.
For more information and for a list of safe driving tips, please click on the link below.
https://www.dot.nv.gov/safety/wrong-way-driver-system
The Nevada State Police Highway Patrol, The Nevada Department of Transportation, the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety, the tow truck industry and the Traffic Incident Management Coalition announced the “Move Over” campaign aimed at raising public awareness of this important issue.
Since 2003 Nevada law has required drivers to slow down, and if safe to do so, move over one lane when approaching any official emergency vehicle(s) pulled over on the side of the road with red and blue emergency lights flashing. In 2017, the move over law (NRS 484B.607) expanded to include Nevada Department of Transportation vehicles (including Freeway Service Patrol), construction vehicles and tow trucks stopped on the side of the road with flashing amber or non-flashing blue lights activated. All 50 States have enacted “Move Over” laws to protect first responders, emergency workers and other personnel working alongside our nation’s highways.
It is important to point out that there are many more incidents each year that cause serious injuries to emergency responders, including career-ending, disabling injuries. There are dozens more property damage incidents that destroy expensive emergency vehicles that must then be taken out of service, making them unavailable to meet the community’s needs. – The Emergency Responder Safety Institute’s 2019 Fatality Report
The below link is a press conference that was held on March 25, 2021 in southern Nevada.
https://www.facebook.com/FOX5Vegas/videos/451381776131080/
The below link is a press conference that was held on March 30, 2021 in northern Nevada.
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The Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Program removes incidents from Nevada’s highways and restores normal travel operations as safely and quickly as possible.
NDOT, NSP, and multiple local agencies partner to:
Safe and quick clearance of traffic incidents.
Prompt reliable and interoperable communications.
Economic vitality by reducing delays.
Responder safety.
Secondary crashes.
The Nevada Department of Transportation provides the Freeway Service Patrol (FSP) program sponsored by GEICO in the Las Vegas and Reno/Sparks areas to reduce congestion and improve highway safety on the more heavily traveled sections of our urban freeways by reducing the time required to remove incidents and objects that can disrupt traffic flows during peak travel periods.
The Nevada TIM Coalition is a forum of collaborative members from the public and private agencies to facilitate continuous dialogue about TIM practices. They do this through collaboratively creating and hosting mutually beneficial trainings and sharing resources. These well-rounded, multi-disciplinary teams bring together their diverse experience to advance and implement TIM practices within specific areas of responsibility across the state.
The SHRP2 TIM Training helps to provide training and information to better remove incidents from Nevada’s highways and restore normal travel operations as safely and quickly as possible.
Browse TIM resources from TIM guidelines to SHRP2 TIM Training information to video resources to NDOT Diversion Maps to Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS), and more. This content is available for all visitors.
For additional dates & information about coalition meetings, SHRP2 TIM Training, Nevada TRIP Program, click here.
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