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Let Safety Drive You.
We plan before we climb. We stretch before we lift. We put on a helmet before we skate. We care about our wellbeing everywhere else, why don’t we in a car? Staying alert, slowing down, and putting distractions away shows what truly drives you.
Drive smart today so you can drive tomorrow.
Together, safety can drive us to better decisions on the road for ourselves, our families, and everyone in our community. Clackamas County has a goal to eliminate fatal and serious injury crashes by 2035.
Everyone deserves to get around Clackamas County safely—whether driving, walking, rolling, or biking. But between 2009 and 2015, 183 people were killed and nearly 800 seriously injured in traffic crashes here. Even one is too many. Our goal is clear: zero serious and fatal crashes.
The biggest factor in safety? Us.
While seatbelts are common, speeding, and distracted driving still put lives at risk. When we understand how our choices affect our community, safer driving follows.
That’s the idea behind Safety Drives Us—a campaign that connects what we love about Clackamas County with a shared responsibility to drive with care. Simple actions matter: slow down, put the phone away, stay focused. These choices protect you—and the people around you.
Take action today:
• Drive smart today so you can drive tomorrow.
• Share this Safety Drives Us page for tips and resources.
• Learn more about the county’s Transportation Safety Action Plan and sign up for traffic safety updates.
• Report road safety concerns at roadconcerns@clackamas.us or 503 557 6391.
• Share ideas for safer streets – ideas about how to reduce crashes or specific locations (e.g., an intersection) where you think we could do something to improve safety for people who walk, bike, or roll at safetydrivesus@clackamas.us.
Safety starts with each of us. Let’s drive like our community depends on it—because it does.
Connect with us
Reach out to traffic safety coordinator Rob Sadowsky to help spread this campaign, to invite our safety team to speak at your school or community group or for more information about any of the programs below.
safetydrivesus@clackamas.us
503-679-7375
Safety Street is rolling into town!
Let your little ones take the wheel (literally!) this summer in our pedal car road safety experience. Kids "drive" through a mini neighborhood filled with stop signs, crosswalks, and speed limits—learning the rules of the road while having a blast!
Perfect for families with young children. We are scheduled at multiple events across Clackamas County all summer long.
To schedule Safety Street at your local neighborhood festival or fair, contact drivetozero@clackamas.us.
Bring Safe Driving Education Resources to You
Already understand the importance of safe driving and want to inspire those in your community? We have a number of education resources and tools to help get the word out.
In schools
- Kevin Brooks, a leading youth speaker on suicide prevention, overcoming obstacles and impaired driving, is available to speak to high school assemblies.
- Mixed media presentations using Fatal Vision Goggles that simulate impaired driving and demonstrate the risk of driving while intoxicated. These 30- to 90-minute presentations are perfect for health and related classes and focus on providing information on distracted driving, traffic safety and avoiding injuries.
In the community
- Our transportation safety booth provides education related to traffic safety and we distribute traffic safety-related items such as safety reflectors.See the dangers of impaired and distracted driving
- Safety Street provides children with the opportunity to practice being safe in cars with crossing signs, speed limits and traffic to pay attention to while driving. Our Safety Street Trailer contains the cars, street signs and comic books for distribution.
- See the dangers of impaired and distracted driving
Our Mobile Educational Crash Car Trailer is designed to start conversations with young drivers. The trailer contains a car from a fatal crash involving driving under the influence of cannabis. For most of us, we will never see a car that has been in a terrible crash. In this case you can see close up the devastation that an impaired driver can cause. This stand-alone exhibit has been used by parents to initiate talking with their children about the dangers of impaired and distracted driving. - Invite us to your neighborhood meeting
Request a presentation from our traffic safety team at your neighborhood organization, event, fair or school. Learn about strategies that residents can take in partnership with the County to encourage safe, calm driving and discourage behaviors that cause serious crashes. - Grab a yard sign
Join the Drive to Zero efforts to slow speeds down on our county's roads by placing a road sign in your front yard. Every household in Clackamas County is eligible to pick up a yard sign from the main offices of the Department of Transportation and Development at 150 Beavercreek Road. Come up to the third floor and ask at the front desk.
Signs can also be picked up at any LINCC library, while supplies last. See locations and hours.
For more information on any of these opportunities, email rsadowsky@clackamas.us.
Get involved as Community Advisors
Keeping our Roads Safe through Infrastructure
- 362nd Paved Shoulders and Safety Improvements
Add paved shoulders to this section as well as identify opportunities and implement safety improvements at the intersection of SE 362nd Ave and SE Colorado Road. - Amisigger Road at Hwy 224 Intersection Improvements
Determine if the intersection meets criteria to build a traffic signal. If criteria is met, both a traffic signal and a roundabout will be evaluated to determine which solution would provide the best value. A traffic signal design would likely add southbound and eastbound left-turn lanes and a westbound right-turn lane. - Beavercreek Road and Barlow Road radar sign installation
Install radar signs for northbound and southbound traffic on both roads. - Bilquist Elementary Sidewalks
Construct sidewalks on both sides of SE Webster Road from Bilquist Elementary School to the existing Tri-Met transit stop at SE Roots Road, widen bike lanes to 8-feet and add a buffer area between bikes and vehicles. Crosswalk upgrades include adding lighting, a center pedestrian refuge and constructing curb ramps to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements to provide access for people with disabilities. - Canby-Marquam Hwy Safety Improvements
Apply a high friction surface treatment approximately between MP 5.05 to MP 5.35 near Kraxberger Road, add two radar-activated curve warning signs with lights, and add reflective material to curve warning sign posts to enhance their visibility. - Courtney Ave. Complete Streets
Provide 6-foot separated sidewalks on both sides of Courtney Avenue; 8-foot buffered bike lanes; intermittent rain gardens for stormwater management; street and pedestrian lighting and ADA compliant intersection curb ramps; and crosswalk enhancements at two intersections. - Knights Bridge Road/Arndt Road intersection safety improvements
Install a radar detection system to detect vehicles as they approach the Knights Bridge Road/Arndt Road intersection and add signal ahead signs and pavement markings to alert drivers of changing conditions. - Report a Road-Related Concern
If you see a missing stop sign, malfunctioning traffic signal or potholes, please let us know. - School Beacon Upgrades
Connect signs to power utilities at seven locations throughout the county. - Signal Detection Upgrades
Replace traffic signal video detection systems at six intersections due to failing equipment and equipment no longer supported by the vendor. - Transportation Safety Action Plan
Learn how you can be a part of eliminating serious injury crashes in Clackamas by 2035.