Each May, the American Trauma Society, in collaboration with the Society of Trauma Nurses, promotes National Trauma Awareness Month. This year, the campaign “3D Trauma Prevention” focuses on contributors to motor vehicle crashes – drugs/drinking, distraction and drowsiness. This is an all-too-familiar list that makes driving in the United States a risky endeavor. In 2013, the U.S. saw more than 32,000 fatalities and more than 2.3 million injuries from motor vehicle crashes. Of those, 31 percent involved an alcohol-impaired driver and 18 percent involved a distracted driver. While these numbers have decreased slightly over the past few years, the promotion of prevention strategies and education around risky behaviors must continue until crashes are eliminated.
The Cooper Trauma Center offers many injury prevention programs that support this initiative as well as many more. To learn more, visit CooperHealth.org/Trauma and click on “Community Outreach and Injury Prevention Programs.”
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