Road Health Project Details

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RoadHealth has detailed the projects receiving support through the $60 thousand dollars set up by Northern Health to help reduce  accidents, injuries and fatalities on northern roads. The projects are spread throughout the Northern Health region, and include:

· Wildlife Collision Prevention Program (Prince George) - Driver awareness campaign

· Prince George Brain Injured Group - Vulnerable road users project

· University of Northern British Columbia - Wildlife accident research

· Emergency Social Services (Hudson's Hope) - Bike rodeo and road safety fair

· Bulkley Valley Brain Injury Association (Smithers) - Booster seat education

· College of New Caledonia (Vanderhoof) - Best driver education

· NorthWest Logging Association (Terrace) - Truckwash power initiative

· Starting Smart Program (Hazelton) - Caring community car seats project

· Fort St. James Extrication Society - Vehicle extraction training

· RCMP (Terrace) - North District seat belt project

· Peace Country Joint Resources Road Safety

"The breadth of projects represented by our RoadHealth grant recipients is exciting," said MaryAnne Arcand, RoadHealth Coordinator and Forestry TruckSafe Manager. "The funding will help to target specific crash reduction issues in various communities and work towards enhancing regional road safety efforts."

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