WHEREAS, traffic crashes in Idaho needlessly claimed the lives of 275 people almost all of who are someone's friend, family and most beloved in 2005; and

        WHEREAS, traffic crashes in Idaho have claimed 2,949 lives in the last eleven years, January 1, 1995 through December 31, 2005; and

        WHEREAS, traffic crashes in the United States of America needlessly claimed the lives of 43,443 people in 2005; and

        WHEREAS, traffic crashes have claimed 465,422 lives in the last eleven years, January 1, 1995 through December 31, 2005; and

        WHEREAS, 56 percent of Passenger Vehicle Occupants killed in traffic crashes are not wearing safety belts; and

        WHEREAS, roadside hazards, substandard road conditions, and obsolete roadway designs contribute to more than 15,000 highway deaths annually, which represents more than 35% of all fatal crashes; and

        WHEREAS, 2,699,000 people were injured in traffic crashes in the United States in 2005; and

        WHEREAS, we experienced 6,120,000 nonfatal traffic crashes in the United States in 2005; and

        WHEREAS, deaths and injuries on highways in the United States cost more than $230,000,000,000 annually; and

        WHEREAS, 4,881 pedestrians and 784 bicyclists were killed in 2005 traffic related crashes;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, JAMES E. RISCH, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim October 10th, 2006, to be

PUT THE BRAKES ON FATALITIES DAY

in Idaho.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this 3^rd day of October in the year of our Lord two thousand and six and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE