During the first six months of this year, vehicle crashes resulting in fatalities have fallen by nearly 20 percent in Southern Nevada.
The figure was revealed at a meeting of the Southern Nevada Traffic Safety Committee, which meets every three months to discuss how to improve road safety
Sheriff Doug Gillespie from Clark County spoke at the meeting and said that both law enforcement and the courts must carry on enforcing traffic violations and that educating drivers on how to drive more safely was the key to preventing major crashes.
He said that the process needed to start before people learned to drive and that children should tell their parents if they have bad driving habits such texting on their phones when they are driving.
He said that in his opinion the youngsters of today were actually making better decisions than the older drivers as they have had more education on driving related issues such as driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
There has actually been a fall in the number of drunken driving arrests over the same time in 2013, by around a quarter and fatal accidents among drunk drivers are also down from 15 last year to 11 this year.
