Click It or Ticket 2012
The Blue Ridge Regional Crash Investigation Teams support the efforts of the National Click It or Ticket campaign. The campaign is conducted yearly to bring attention to the need to wear seat belts and properly secure children in motor vehicles. All law enforcement agencies represented by the BRRCIT will be focusing enforcement and educational efforts from May 21st through June 3rd on occupant protection. If you are a member of the small percentage of people who still refuse to wear a seat belt and use child safety seats when required, you may want to avoid our service area during this period!
BLUE RIDGE REGIONAL CRASH INVESTIGATION TEAMS
Who We Are
The Blue Ridge Regional Crash Investigation Team (BRRCIT) concept was developed in 2003 to provide experience/expertise, state of the art equipment, training, and analysis capabilities to all participating agencies. The crash teams consist of separate teams across Southwestern Virginia with the primary mission to investigate serious traffic crashes and develop ways to prevent them. Each team is primarily staffed with highly trained crash reconstructrionists from local and state law enforcement agencies. Each team is supported by traffic engineers, traffic safety advocates, mechanics, trauma unit medical staff and other disciplines as needed to conduct detailed crash investigations. The BRRCIT receives some of the best crash investigation equipment and training available.
Blue Ridge Regional Crash Investigation Teams Mission Statement
The mission of the BRRCIT is to reduce the number and severity of traffic crashes through a joint-jurisdictional, multi-agency, multi-disciplinary approach to research crashes, analyze crash data, and develop effective community-based counter measurers for prevention. The BRRCIT has several teams throughout Southwestern Virginia consisting of crash reconstructionists from local and state law enforcement. Each team has state of the art equipment to investigate and reconstruct serious traffic crashes. Each team member receives extensive training in crash investigation and reconstruction.
Teams from the BRRCIT are called to investigate not only crashes involving fatalities and serious injury, but also crashes requiring specific, technical expertise such as pedestrians, motorcycles, and large trucks. The BRRCIT provide effective, detailed crash investigations to determine the causative factors of a crash. The teams then create enforcement programs and traffic safety presentations to combat the causative factors discovered during crash investigations.
Teams from the BRRCIT are called to investigate not only crashes involving fatalities and serious injury, but also crashes requiring specific, technical expertise such as pedestrians, motorcycles, and large trucks. The BRRCIT provide effective, detailed crash investigations to determine the causative factors of a crash. The teams then create enforcement programs and traffic safety presentations to combat the causative factors discovered during crash investigations.
Crash Team Recognition
The Blue Ridge Regional Crash Investigation Teams have received awards at the local and state level since its inception in 2003. At right, members of the crash team received a Governor's Transportation Safety Award in 2006 for their efforts. Individual team members and their respective law enforcement agencies have also received Virginia Governor's Transportations Safety Awards for focusing on the causative factors determined during crash team studies then developing enforcement and education programs to combat them. The crash teams have also been called upon to present their multi-jurisdictional, multi-disciplinary approach to crash investigations during state and national traffic safety conferences. Currently there is a push to move the crash team concept throughout the State of Virginia due to the program's success in Southwestern Virginia.
The Blue Ridge Regional Crash Investigation Teams currently has eight regional teams throughout Central and Southwestern Virginia.
Central Virginia Team
James River Team
Mountain Empire Team
New River Valley Team
Piedmont Team
Pulaski Team
Roanoke Valley Team
Rockbridge Team
The Blue Ridge Regional Crash Investigation Teams currently has eight regional teams throughout Central and Southwestern Virginia.
Central Virginia Team
James River Team
Mountain Empire Team
New River Valley Team
Piedmont Team
Pulaski Team
Roanoke Valley Team
Rockbridge Team
 | The Blue Ridge Regional Crash Investigation Teams won the 2011 Virginia Governor's Transportation Safety Award for General Traffic Safety. The award is presented for outstanding efforts in educating citizens and changing attitudes and behaviors regarding transportation safety. The crash teams were recognized for their abilitiy to determine causative factors for serious crashes occurring in Southwestern Virginia then developing enforcement and educational presentations that targeted these factors. The crash teams have received a number of local, state, and national awards since its inception. Pictured from left to right- Walter Yeatts, Board of Transportation Safety Chair; David Mitchell, DMV Deputy Commissioner; Senator Yvonne Miller, District 5; First Sergeant Michael Bailey, Virginia State Police; Sergeant Tim Wyatt, Roanoke County Police; Delegate Joe May, 33rd District; Richard Holcomb, DMV Commissioner.
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Blue Ridge Transportation Safety Board
The concept for the Blue Ridge Regional Crash Investigation Teams was developed by members of the Blue Ridge Transportation Safety Board. The Blue Ridge Transportation Board (BRTSB) was established in 1988 to meet the traffic safety needs of the West Central Virginia area. The BRTSB has the unique advantage of working with only a region of the state; therefore, its programs are localized to meet the direct and specific needs of its communities. The mission of the BRTSB is to coordinate and promote traffic safety programs, projects, and initiatives within the region and to provide a professional network through which jurisdictions can receive guidance and/or support for their individual traffic safety issues.
Contact Information
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