Data-Driven Safety: Using Telematics to Ace Operation Safe Driver Week
Operation Safe Driver Week is a safe-driving awareness and outreach initiative aimed at improving the driving behaviors of passenger vehicle drivers and commercial motor vehicle drivers through educational and traffic enforcement strategies and interactions with law enforcement.
The next Operation Safe Driver Week is scheduled for July 12-18, 2026.
Throughout Operation Safe Driver Week, law enforcement personnel will be on the lookout for commercial motor vehicle drivers and passenger vehicle drivers engaging in risky driving. Identified unsafe drivers will be pulled over and issued a citation or warning.
[Data](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228280746_Do_Traffic_Tickets_Reduce_Motor_Vehicle_Accidents_Evidence_from_a_Natural_Experiment) shows that traffic stops and interactions with law enforcement help reduce problematic driving behaviors. By making contact with drivers during Operation Safe Driver Week, law enforcement personnel aim to make our roadways safer by targeting high-risk driving behaviors.
• Speeding has been a factor in more than a quarter of crash deaths over the past decade. [(Source)](https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/fatality-statistics/detail/yearly-snapshot)
• In FMCSA's Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts (2016), "speeding of any kind" appears among the top driver-related factors recorded for large-truck drivers in fatal crashes. [(Source)](https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/safety/data-and-statistics/399366/people-tbl29-2016.xls)
• Distracted driving claimed 3,142 lives in 2019. [(Source)](https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/813111)
• Among passenger vehicle occupant fatalities in 2019 where restraint use was known, 47% were unrestrained. [(Source)](https://saferoads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Seat-Belt-Fact-Sheet-October-2021.pdf)
• Every day, about 28 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes — that’s one person every 52 minutes. In 2019, 10,142 people lost their lives due to drunk driving. [(Source)](https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/813120)
https://cvsa.org/programs/operation-safe-driver/operation-safe-driver-week/
