In 2025, Metropolitan Planning Agency (MAPA) led the development of a Safe Streets for All Comprehensive Safety Action Plan (CSAP) for Douglas and Sarpy counties and the Iowa cities of Council Bluffs, Carter Lake, Crescent, and McClelland. This plan laid the foundation for safety improvement projects across the region with the goal of no traffic fatalities by the year 2040, but did not specifically include EMS post-crash care activities.
So, MAPA submitted a grant application for funding to boost post-crash care in region.
As Jim Boerner, MAPA Transportation Planner and the Project Manager for this program, explained to Mike Hogan on KIOS-FM’s “Live & Local” program, Federal crash data show that in 2024, 66% of people killed in crashes in the Omaha-Council Bluffs metro area died either on their way to the hospital or at the hospital. Severe blood loss is the leading cause of preventable death in trauma cases like crashes. The Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MAPA) has applied for a grant which aims to improve survival rates by helping boost post-crash care…