San Antonio - Peru State College student Bailey Bindle has been named a 2018 Traffic Safety Scholar
(TSS) and awarded a $1,000 scholarship to attend the 37th annual National Lifesavers
Conference on Highway Safety Priorities, April 22-24 in San Antonio, TX. Bindle was
also a 2017 Traffic Safety Scholar.
Bindle is one of 50 U.S. and international college students selected through a competitive
application process. The Lifesavers Conference showcases the latest research, evidence-based
strategies, proven countermeasures, and promising new approaches for addressing the
nation’s most pressing traffic safety problems.
Bindle is pursuing a degree in Criminal Justice, Counseling and Psychology and minoring
in Substance Abuse Counseling at Peru State College.
This is the third year of the Traffic Safety Scholars program, which provides college
students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees the opportunity to attend the
Lifesavers Conference, the largest gathering of traffic safety professionals in the
U.S. The goal of the TSS program is to showcase the diversity of opportunities in
traffic safety and encourage students, regardless of discipline, to pursue a career
in a dynamic field that draws from a variety of disciplines from engineering, education
and enforcement to communications, business, marketing, medicine, public health, political
science, counseling, and more.
Bindle and her fellow Traffic Safety Scholars will be honored at a pre-conference
reception on April 21 in San Antonio where they will be welcomed by Terry Pence, Traffic
Safety Director for the Texas Department of Transportation; Erin Sauber-Schatz, Leader
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Transportation Safety Team; and
John Ulczycki, Vice President of Legislative Affairs for LMG Holdings, Inc. and Chairman
of the Lifesavers Board of Directors.
The Scholars will also have the opportunity to participate in three plenary sessions
and more than 80 workshops featuring leading experts in the field of distracted and
impaired driving and walking; child passenger, pedestrian, bicycle, motorcycle, teen,
and older driver safety; adult occupant protection; vehicle technology; law enforcement;
commercial vehicles; roadway design; and more.
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To learn more about the Lifesaver Conference and the TSS program, visit http://www.lifesaversconference.org
conference.org.