State Highway Safety Report (2021) - Minnesota
The following provides a summary of the Highway Safety Improvement Program's (HSIP) safety performance measures and State safety performance targets. As per the Safety PM Final Rule, States are required to set annual safety performance targets in the HSIP annual report for the number of fatalities, rate of fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT), number of serious injuries, rate of serious injures per 100 million VMT, and number of non-motorized fatalities and serious injuries. The safety performance targets are based on 5-year rolling averages. States have the flexibility to use the methodology they deem most appropriate when establishing safety performance targets. FHWA encourages States to review data sets and trends and consider factors that may affect targets. The safety performance targets should be data-driven, realistic, and attainable and should align with the performance management framework and legislative intent.
A State Department of Transportation (DOT) has met or made significant progress towards meeting its safety performance targets when at least four of the five safety performance targets established under 23 CFR 490.209(a) have been met or the actual outcome is better than the baseline performance. The baseline performance is the 5-year average ending with the year prior to the establishment of the target.
The Basis for Target and Additional Comments are provided by the State in their HSIP Annual Report and have not been edited by FHWA. Any questions about individual State reports should be directed to the respective State DOT. For additional information about each State's HSIP, the complete reports are available at https://highways.dot.gov/safety/hsip/reporting.
More information and resources on Safety Performance Management are available at https://highways.dot.gov/safety/hsip/spm/safety-performance-management-safety-pm-overview.
All State data used to populate the State Highway Safety Reports for 2021 are available for download at https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tpm/reporting/state/tpm_dashboard_data.zip.
Additional Comments
2021 Comments:
Minnesota recognized that by using simple projections from prior years, the targets may increase: this was not acceptable. A new methodology for establishing safety targets was necessary to track progress towards our SHSP goals. This method utilizes quality data from the State Crash Database and current outcomes from 2019 to establish meaningful targets.
2023 Comments:
While Minnesota supports setting aspirational safety targets, these must be achievable. Given the outcomes of 2020 and 2021, a large sustained reduction would be necessary in all measures to maintain our prior methodology. Given the short timeframe on these targets--and limited ability to make programmatic changes in this period--Minnesota supports setting all 2023 Targets equal to 2022 Targets. This will require innovative thinking and sustained support to achieve these goals.
Safety Performance Target Assessment
PLEASE NOTE: Each State’s safety performance target assessment is based on its own State-specific target methodology and program philosophy. Therefore, conclusions should not be drawn based only on the information in the Safety Performance Target Assessment Summary table. For example, the State may have set aggressive targets, and not met those targets, while another State may have set more easily attainable targets, and met those targets. FHWA understands that each State’s safety program is unique and therefore does not prescribe a methodology for States to set targets. States have the flexibility to use the methodology they deem most appropriate when setting their safety performance targets.
Performance Measure | 2017-2021 Target | 2017-2021 Actual | 2015-2019 Baseline | Met Target? | Better Than Baseline? | Met or Made Significant Progress? |
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Number of Fatalities | 352.4 | 397.0 | 381.2 | No | No | No |
Rate of Fatalities | 0.582 | 0.688 | 0.642 | No | No | |
Number of Serious Injuries | 1,579.8 | 1,664.0 | 1,629.6 | No | No | |
Rate of Serious Injuries | 2.606 | 2.876 | 2.732 | No | No | |
Number of non-motorized fatalities and non-motorized serious injuries | 281.2 | 279.6 | 284.6 | Yes | N/A |