Traffic Safety

The Nevada Department of Public Safety, Office of Traffic Safety is urging Nevadans to be recharged and ready to start a fresh year rather than spending your holidays incarcerated after making potentially life-changing decisions to drive impaired.

The Nevada Highway Patrol will be Joining Forces looking for drivers and other occupants in vehicles who are not wearing their seatbelts and, or children who are not properly secured in car or booster seats. Northern Nevada deputies and troopers will be stopping drivers for different traffic offenses and issuing citations for seatbelt violations now through Dec. 2, 2017.

The Nevada Department of Transportation has wrapped up this season’s construction to reinforce a destabilized roadside slope on U.S. Highway 50 near Cave Rock at Lake Tahoe. Final construction will resume in the spring.

The Nevada Department of Transportation and partners are reminding community members to be pedestrian safe by installing sidewalk decals at two pedestrian crossing areas in Carson City.

CARSON CITY, Nev. – The Nevada Department of Transportation and Nevada Department of Public Safety, Highway Patrol are reminding drivers and pedestrians to be safe on the road this Halloween and every day.

Western Nevada College and Greater Nevada Credit Union will present the next new driver education class on Saturdays, Oct. 14 through Nov. 18, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the Carson City campus.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office has received a $43,000 grant from the Nevada Department of Public Safety, Office of Traffic Safety, to support the agency's participation in the Joining Forces traffic safety campaign for the coming year.

Traffic detours will be in place this weekend on the USA Parkway to Interstate 80 ramps as part of a Nevada Department of Transportation project to restripe the ramps for enhanced traffic safety and flow.

The Nevada Department of Transportation says work on the State Route 28 shared-used path near Incline Village will be on hold during Labor Day weekend, Saturday, Sept. 2 through Monday, Sept. 4.

Beginning Monday and continuing through August 14, the Carson City Sheriff's Office and law enforcement statewide as part of Joining Forces will issue citations this week to pedestrians and motorists who are breaking traffic safety laws.

More than two dozen law enforcement agencies statewide will be Joining Forces to crack down on drivers exceeding speed limits or driving aggressively from now through July 30.

The Nevada Department of Transportation announced that work on State Route 28 shared-used path near Incline Village will be on hold during the Fourth of July extended holiday weekend, Saturday, July 1 through Tuesday, July 4.

The Nevada Department of Transportation’s U.S. 50 Cave Rock tunnel extension project, which completed ahead of schedule last year, has been recognized with an America’s Transportation Award.

The Nevada Department of Transportation will begin a project Wednesday, June 7 to reinforce a destabilized roadside slope for enhanced safety on U.S. 50 at Lake Tahoe.

As the 2017 school session ends and summer begins, law enforcement agencies statewide are Joining Forces to urge motorists to be pedestrian aware and share the streets responsibly. In an effort to stop pedestrian fatalities, agencies aligned with Joining Forces will focus on enforcing pedestrian safety guidelines now through the remainder of this week.

Congratulations to the Class of 2017 at Carson High School. Though the school year is concluded, teachers will be talking about this class for some time to come. According to CHS government teacher Angila Golik, “This is an amazing class of great kids, a huge accomplishment since there are close to 500 seniors in the class.”

The Nevada Highway Patrol will offer a car seat safety check at the Walmart Super Center in South Carson City. NHP will inspect, install and if needed, replace car seats on a case by case basis.

It is that time of year again, time for the Carson High School Class of 2017 to graduate and move on toward other exciting endeavors. Many graduates will continue their education by heading up to the next level, going off to college, while some will attend a trade school, and yet others will simply begin employment in a field of their choice.

Driver Education
In this classroom only course new drivers can prepare for the challenges of driving (and driver license testing) in the Western Nevada College Driver Education Program. The non-credit course meets four days for 30 hours of classroom training; Students must be at least 15 years of age on the last day of class to be eligible to take the course. The WNC Driver Education Program meets the training requirements to obtain a Nevada driver’s license.

Here is the Carson City and Lake Tahoe area road report for the week of May 22-28, 2017. Closures are expected at the following locations due to road and utility work. Please follow detours.

Ariana Schmidt, Executive Editor of the 2017 Carneta yearbook and Carson High School News Magazine, accepted yet another Gallery of Excellence award from Walsworth Sales Representative Natasha Volpe.

This week's edition of It's Your City with host Cortney Bloomer features a conversation with Kevin Moore, Zero Teen Fatalities Manager for the Nevada State Office of Traffic Safety and the airing of a Carson High senior project video featuring a teen drinking and driving fatality scenario.

The Nevada Highway Patrol is teaming up with local law enforcement agencies to educate motorists on seatbelt usage. The "Click it or Ticket" campaign runs now through May 31.

Here is the Carson City and Lake Tahoe area road report for the week of May 8-14, 2017. Road closures expected at the following locations due to road/utility work. Please use caution:

It is beautiful outside, the sun is shining, and all of nature is demonstrating its beauty through its natural and exquisite display.

The wind blows, and the trees dance. Cats and dogs run to and fro playing with one another, at least most of the time. Wild animals, though difficult to see at times, are moving about through the forest in search of food. So what is the story here a reader will ask?

CHS students are taking advantage of the beautiful weather, and some of them are going too far with the natural.

The Nevada Department of Transportation will raise the maximum speed limit from 75 to 80 mph on sections of Interstate 80 between Fernley and Winnemucca.

Traffic lane shifts and speed reductions will take place through early fall on U.S. 50 in Silver Springs as the Nevada Department of Transportation begins construction of a roundabout connecting the future USA Parkway extension to U.S. 50.

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — This summer’s launch of construction improvements on State Route 28 will begin Monday, May 1 with ongoing work through Oct. 15 on the share-used path, highway safety, accessibility, and water quality enhancements.

The number of pedestrian deaths statewide for 2017 has reached 23, that is 23 too many. Law enforcement agencies statewide, as part of Joining Forces, have been focusing this month on pedestrians and motorists who are breaking traffic safety laws.

This vehicle, being driven at a high rate of speed, was flipped over on Hamilton Street in Carson City on Sunday, April 23, 2017. This was in a residential area, where children play every day. It missed my car by only a few feet, avoiding a head on collision.

Perhaps this could serve as an important reminder to all drivers to slow down. Follow the speed limit. It is really a miracle that no one was killed. It is not unusual to see drivers speeding down the streets in my neighborhood. Summer is coming, kids are out playing and people are out walking their dogs. Please slow down!