Traffic Safety Successes On The Colville Reservation

November 30, 2012

Take a journey as Colville tribal members and residents discuss improvements in Education, Enforcement, Engineering, and Emergency Medical Services that have helped to reduce deaths and serious injuries from traffic crashes on the Colville Reservation. Produced by the Washington Traffic Safety Commission in cooperation with the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Shot entirely on location on the reservation.

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NESPELEM — A map of the 1.4 million-acre Colville Indian Reservation littered with red and yellow markers hangs on a wall at the Colville Tribal Police Department. The markers show dozens of fatal and near-fatal crashes that occurred over a four-or five-year period. For years, serious vehicle accidents have plagued members of the Confederated Tribe of the Colville Reservation.

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