FDOT holding workshop with SWFL agencies to stop dangerous drivers

On Tuesday, the Florida Department of Transportation will hold a workshop in Lee County to identify where the most dangerous drivers are in Southwest Florida, and speeding isn’t the most dangerous behavior being investigated

FDOT administrators say the purpose of this workshop is to meet with local partner agencies and community members in Southwest Florida to educate them on some of the main safety issues they’re seeing on our roadways and what all of us can do to make our roads safer. This workshop will address the issues in the eleven counties in District One, which includes Collier, Lee and Charlotte counties.

The two main issues FDOT leaders say they’re seeing are aggressive driving and distracted driving, from people not paying attention to posted speed limit signs to others not being patient with other drivers on the road.

Keith Robbins, a safety administrator with FDOT, says that at this workshop, the department will focus on the data it has collected and things that can be done to help lower the speed on our roadways.

“Data that we’re collecting and analyzing, it doesn’t go very far if we don’t have our local partners helping us out in implementing solutions or identifying and implementing solutions to do something about the statistics,” Robbins said. “With that being said, it takes a commitment from everybody involved to do the right thing to help move the needle and lower the number of fatalities and serious injury crashes that we’re seeing on our roadways.”

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