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Traffic Safety Tara

Community Traffic Safety Project funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation with the Highway Safety Network for PennDOT District 5-0.

12/15/2025

Stay prepared for the road ahead this winter! ❄️⤵️

12/09/2025

Winter roads can turn merry trips into unexpected adventures! ❄️🚗 Pack your emergency travel kit BEFORE you hit the road:

Warm clothes & gloves
Phone charger
Flashlight
Jumper cables
Shovel
First-aid kit
Water
Non-perishable snacks

Stay safe, stay prepared, and arrive jolly!

12/09/2025

Vote for your favorite plow!

Paint the Plow online voting is now open!

Visit penndot.pa.gov/PaintThePlow through December 14 to vote on your favorite safety-themed plow, painted by dozens of PA high school students.

Support these creative students as they promote winter driving safety.

12/09/2025

Holiday hustle is real! 🎄🚶‍♂️🚗 Let’s all make it home safe this season. ⤵️

12/08/2025

Pro tip from the North Pole: Seat belts are the real magic.
Click it and enjoy the ride! ✨

12/06/2025

Planning for the road ahead. Talk to your older loved ones about adjusting their driving habits to continue driving safely 🚗. NHTSA offers free resources for families and caregivers at NHTSA.gov/OlderDrivers.

12/05/2025

From teenagers to older adults, the keys 🔑 to the car are the keys to freedom. That’s why it can be important to have a conversation with an aging adult about their safety behind the wheel 🚗. Read more about understanding older driver safety: www.nhtsa.gov/older-drivers/how-understand-and-influence-older-drivers

12/04/2025

Getting older doesn’t mean it’s time to hang up the keys 🔑! But staying safe behind the wheel 🚗 does mean monitoring changes in overall health to drive safely and comfortably. Learn how medical conditions can impact functional ability and safe driving: NHTSA.gov/OlderDrivers

12/03/2025

It's National Older Driver Safety Awareness Week! ❤️

Take these 3 easy steps to learn how to understand and influence the older driver in your life:

🟡 Collect information
🟡 Develop a plan of action
🟡 Follow through on the plan

NHTSA.gov/OlderDrivers

10/31/2025

Trick or treat, smell my feet…
🚗 DON’T make the streets scary for real.
Kids in costumes are hard to spot—slow down, headlights on, phone down.
Save the jump scares for the movies. 👻

10/22/2025

10/13/2025

Thank you again to Hamburg Area High School for allowing us to bring this great and valuable program to the area. Big thanks to the VA Tech Transportation Institute for traveling to Berks County and educating the students about how to safely Share the Road with Trucks.

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Pottsville, PA
17901

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 4pm
Tuesday	8am - 4pm
Wednesday	8am - 4pm
Thursday	8am - 4pm
Friday	8am - 4pm

Website

https://www.highwaysafetynetwork.org/projects-archive/ctsp-district-5-0/

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Hi, my name is Tara DeStefano and I am a Community Traffic Safety Project Coordinator with the Highway Safety Network for PennDOT District 5-0. So what does all that mean and why the heck does anyone care?? My role is outreach when it comes to traffic safety. My goal is to get to ZERO....ZERO traffic crashes and ZERO fatalities. I get the message out about the importance of safety when it comes to traveling in PA, be it by car, bike or on foot. If it’s a traffic topic, I have an accompanying safety message. If there’s an audience to speak with, I will. It doesn’t matter the circumstances I will promote traffic safety....just ask my son.

Did you ever wonder why you hear traffic crashes called “crashes” rather than “accidents”? [1] The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an accident as: “an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance.”Yet most traffic crashes are due to human error, whether it is because of impaired driving, distracted driving, speeding or even driver inattention. A crash because of impaired driving is not unforeseen. A crash because of distracted driving is not unforeseen, nor is a crash caused by speeding or drowsy driving. A fatality because a person didn’t wear a seat belt is foreseeable. All of these actions are known to cause crashes and fatalities. The end result of these actions is foreseeable and preventable.

So what is the point to this page? I will use it to promote traffic safety messages and use it to highlight what is going on in the counties that I cover (Berks, Lehigh and Schuylkill). It is also a way for people to contact me to request programming and presentations or just ask questions about traffic safety.

Thanks for stopping by and feel free to say HI on my wall! :)