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Existing County | Transportation

Motor Vehicle Safety

Florence County manages the local Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). While the MPO covers a multitude
of topics and goals, one crucial to the system is Highway Safety Targets. Transit agencies are required to set fiscal
year performance measures to improve the public transportation safety. Highway Safety Targets are set each year.
These targets cover a five-year rolling average. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) reviews these targets
yearly to determine if the states are meeting the targets or are making significant progress towards the set goals.
The target categories that are being monitored are Fatalities, Fatality Rate, Number of Serious Injuries, Serious
Injury Rate, and Number of Non-Motorized/ Serious Injuries. Florence Area Transportation Study (FLATS) works
with the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) in setting performance targets by planning for and
programming safety aspects into each project. Calculating performance measures helps the transit agencies
to quantify their safety risk and set targets that support local prioritization. The most recent safety targets
were adopted on January 24, 2022 and are scheduled to be updated annually.

Traffic Fatality Rate* Severe Injuries Severe Injury Rate* Non-motorized
Fatalities

SC Baseline (2015-2019) 1005.8 1.821 2966.6 5.378 413.4

SC Targets (2017-2021) 1005.0 1.760 2950.0 5.350 440.0

FLATS Baseline (2015- 32.0
1.934 70.4 4.240 16.2
2019) 20.0

*Per 100 million vehicle miles traveled

Florence County, SC | Comprehensive Plan pg. 69