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When is Good Enough, Near Enough? Asking when "Enough" is "Enough" in Road Safety Social Marketing Interventions Stephen Dann, Australian National University Marie-Louise Fry, University of Newcastle Abstract Success in social marketing interventions is rarely clear cut, and even more rarely achieved. Behavioural goals require reinforcement, maintenance and ongoing campaign revision to hold target populations to approved behaviours. In road safety, one of the dominant contemporary philosophical frameworks is the "zero tolerance" approach that assumes all road traffic accidents are preventable. This paper questions the zero acceptable death rate premise on two grounds. First, it argues that focusing on zero tolerance objectives in social marketing campaigns such as Queensland's "Because Enough is Enough" are unrealistic goals for campaigns that involve behaviors that are influenced strongly by random factors such as mechanical failure, luck and engineering. Second, the paper questions whether social marketing can go further in campaigns where adoption and compliance rates are approaching 99.99%. Finally, the paper touches on the conflict inherent between the reality of personal tragedy within the "failure" rate of social marketing campaigns, and the objective statistical rate of success of the same campaign. Conclusions as to the future direction for social marketing goal setting are suggested, along with further research objectives Introduction Road death prevention is listed along with child mortality reduction and environmental sustainability as priorities for the future of the planet (Brown and D'Souza, 2006; Peder et al, 2004). Over the past thirty years, social marketing has been actively engaged as a mechanism to stem road death and serious injury. As such, the central focus for many social marketing campaigns in road safety has centred on influencing any (and all) controllable factors that may decrease the road users risk of death. For example, numerous campaigns in Queensland encourage a range of road safe behaviours from reducing speed through to anti-drink driving and anti-fatigued driving (Queensland Transport, 2006). Other states have implemented similar campaigns based on responsible road use behaviour targeting 'preventable' death through the application of social marketing frameworks. Concept of 'Preventable Death': The Legacy of Road Trauma The core philosophical framework underpinning many road safety interventions, past, present and future, is that road traffic injuries and death are preventable (UN, 2005). Deaths, injuries and the concept of prevention have been long associated with motorisation. The first death in England attributed to automotives was recorded on 17 August 1896. The driver was travelling at an estimated speed of 8 miles an hour, licences were not required, and witnesses reported that the car was travelling at tremendous speed. The outcome of the coroner's inquest returned a verdict of accidental death and the coroner declared that "This must never happen again" (ATSB, 2004). For 110 years, road safety theory and practice has been underpinned by the concept of prevention. From this the notion that road safety can be controlled has grown into an industry that attempts to prevent road death from "ever happening again". A century later 'preventable death' continues to remain the key principle underpinning the current and future vision of road safety in Australia as outlined in the National Road Safety Strategy 2001-2010 (NRSS). The overriding principle of the NRSS vision for road safety specifies that "The road toll should not be accepted as inevitable" and states that priority is to be given to the preservation of human life and the prevention of serious injury (ATC 2000: 3). According to Smith (2000) the vision and principles of the current NRSS represents a paradigm for future-based thinking rather than viewing road safety as a series of identifiable targets as specified in previous road safety plans. Yet, despite the NRSS advocating a paradigm for future-based thinking, the bulk of the burden for road safety lies with the road user (Tingvall & Haworth, 1999). Consequently, it is advocated that the road user behave in a certain way so as to avoid accidents, and be rewarded with "life" versus death or serious injury. Implicit in this perspective is that humans have the ability to fail, break road rules and regulations and thus are a key factor responsible for road death and serious injury. Preventable Death and Behavioural Change Road safety is often seen as preventable under the hindsight framework of "if only Factor X was different" where Factor X includes vehicle speed, driver fatigue, alcohol intake, seat belt usage, airbag usage, road conditions, road engineering and vehicle engineering constraints. In short, if the driver was driving a different car in a different manner at a different speed under different conditions, then the crash conditions would not have occurred – particularly if the vehicle which they collide with was also somewhere else doing something else. Taking this perspective, there has been an overriding focus on the behavioural components of 'Factor X' representing the modification of driver behaviour to correct erroneous behaviour (eg speeding, drinking, driving tired). Death by road trauma is deemed to have been an action where the participant had some elective involvement – if the death was inevitable, or certain, it simply cannot be a "preventable death". Road Safety Success or Road Safety Failure? The success of road safety campaigns can be viewed from two perspectives: objective success versus perceptual failure. Objective success exists within a framework of scientific measure, and observation-intervention-observation-measured outcomes. In an examination of the literature, objective levels of road-safety success can be attributed to a concerted series of road safety campaigns and interventions (media combined with police enforcement). The most common method to quantify objective success utilised by road safety practitioners is rates of death per chosen measure (eg: registered vehicles, deaths per 100,000 population). When Australian road reports commenced in 1925, there were about 700 deaths for 306,000 registered vehicles representing approximately 12 deaths per 100,000 population (FORS, 1998). Excepting periods during the Depression and World War II, the fatality rate statistics steadily rose to a high in 1970 of 3,798 fatalities and 30.4 deaths per 100,000 population (FORS, 1998). The period between 1970 and 2002 represents the greatest decline in reduction of road fatality. In this period the fatality rate dropped from 30.4 to 8.8 deaths per 100,000 population despite an increase in motor vehicle use (ATSB, 2004). Interestingly, the fatality rate per 10,000 registered vehicles was also reduced from 8.0 in 1970 to 1.4 in 2002 (ATSB, 2004). These figures clearly indicate that road-related death is being prevented at a greater rate than ever before. Yet, despite statistically demonstrable evidence of positive change, there is a perception within the transport system, which in turn is translated in the media, that even one serious injury or death resulting from a road accident represents a "crisis" situation. Perhaps the crisis lies not with deaths on roads, but with the belief that all road death is the failure of the interventions to meet 'zero tolerance' levels. In Queensland, the State Government has announced a new road safety campaign based on the slogan "Enough is Enough". The campaign aims for an eventual statewide road toll of 300 or lower in an unspecified time frame (Queensland Government 2006). Of significance to both road safety campaigners and social marketers is the statement on the campaign website indicating the campaign goals. "The aim of Campaign 300 in 2006 is to reduce the road toll by as much as we can. Of course we will never be satisfied as long as people are dying and being injured on our roads." (Queensland Government, 2006) By way of historical context, the precursor to this campaign was the increasing in the road death rate from 311 in 2004 to 329 in 2005. At the same time, Queensland's population increased from a projected 3.96 million in June 2005 to an estimated population of 4 million in December 2005, (ABS, 2004; ABS 2006). In context, the road toll for Queensland accounted for 0.0083% of the population, with the new targeted rate being aimed at reducing the rate to 0.0075%. Table 1 examines the road toll against the state population. Table 1: Road Death by Year, Population and Adjusted to 2005 Population Year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Population 3472879 3530816 3592443 3668848 3758684 3846435 3926210 4000000 Road Toll 279 314 317 324 322 310 311 329 Adjusted Rate 0.0080% 0.0089% 0.0088% 0.0088% 0.0086% 0.0081% 0.0079% 0.0082% Adjusted 2005 321 356 353 353 343 322 317 329 (derived from Atkinson (2006) and ABS (2004) and ABS 2006) The lowest total road toll was in 1998 (279, 0.008%), yet the lowest road toll compared to the state population was 2004 (311, 0.0079%). If Queensland's road toll maintains the peak per capita success rate of 2004, 317 people would be expected to die this calendar year., simply due to the size of the Queensland population. Although 50 more people died in 2005 compared to 1998, there were approximately 530,000 more people in Queensland. Despite a demonstrable reduction in per capita fatality rates, the Queensland Government has a stated objective to regard any death as unacceptable. This has the consequence of committing road safety social marketing in Queensland will be focused on zero tolerance, with zero death as the target outcome. Zero Tolerance Zero tolerance is a "philosophy of road safety that eventually no one will be killed or seriously injured within the road transport system", thus advocates the unacceptability of road death and/or injury (Tingvall, 1998; Tingvall & Haworth, 1999). Although the concept of zero tolerance accepts that accidents will occur as people do make errors, it specifically advocates that crash energy cannot exceed human tolerance. That is, that no foreseeable accident should be as severe as to cause long term health loss (Tingvall & Haworth, 1999). Despite the rhetoric that zero tolerance breaks the responsibility of road safety from the road user to sharing the responsibility between system designers and road users, the National Road Safety Strategy target for the reduction of road trauma is a 40% drop in number of fatalities per 100,000 population by 2010. This target is expected to save 3,600 lives. By implication, this strategy assumes that road fatalities are the result of controllable circumstances, and that strict adherence to 'best practice' road behaviour will result in 'best practice' outcomes of reduced or zero level road mortality Currently, road safety interventions have reduced fatality rates to a level of 1.4 per 10,000 registered vehicles, which translates into figures of 0.014%. To put this figure into context, 99.986% of registered vehicles are not likely to be involved in a fatality (i.e.: 99,986 vehicles per 100000 registered vehicles will not be involved in a fatality). How Near to Zero is Enough? A comment allegedly attributable to Josef Stalin makes for an unlikely social marketing benchmark. However, the principle that "A single death is a tragedy, as a million deaths are a statistic" strongly influences social marketing's perceived success. Objectively, road safety has succeeded with 99,986 vehicles per 100,000 not involved in fatal incidents. That said, for those vehicles what constitutes the personalised embodiment of 0.014%, and the people left behind by their deaths the road safety system failed. Those deaths are personal tragedies that are far more powerful than the objective rates of success. In a culture that is pro-existence, death is not regarded as an acceptable outcome to a social marketing campaign designed to save lives, and not where millions of tax payer dollars are set aside to fund this "prevention". But realistically, at what point will social marketing concede success and move to maintenance of the 99.986% and allow the resources spent chasing the last 0.014% be moved to another area where fatalities rates are demonstrably higher? Rates of road trauma death have declined, and the statistical levels of non compliance can be rounded off to 99% or 99.99% compliance. Despite these levels of objective success, road safety is still perceived as a problem yet to be solved, with governments increasing funding to pursue the elusive remaining fraction of a percent compliance. Perceptual Failure The concept of "perceptual failure" is the subjective belief that an intervention program has failed to achieve an acceptable level of success because of the visibility of the incidents of failure. Road safety is an invisible benefit with road safety failure being a visible and visual spectacle. Consequently, road trauma has clearer match with Slovic et al.'s (1984) heuristics of availability, which is how easily a person can recall or imagine the consequences of the risk behaviour. The failure of road safety is fair more memorable than the success as road trauma is a visual spectacle that can be easily imagined, vividly recalled, and can skew perceptions. A single photograph of a wrecked car can portray the inevitable statistical failure in an emotive and powerful light. It is not simply enough to caption an image of this strength with the words "1.4 per 100,000 registered vehicles" in order to convince the public that road safety is succeeding. The campaign may succeed objectively, yet for those who are grieving road trauma, no level of statistical measure of success will alleviate the loss of a loved one. Issues for Social Marketing Managing Expectations The Queensland Government commitment to zero tolerance for road death means that social marketing road safety campaigns are committed to failure rates of approximately 300 to 330 deaths per year. At the same time that Queensland Government proudly touts Australia's largest population growth rates of an average of 75,000 people over the past three years, there is an expectation that road trauma rates can be decreased. Adding more people, more vehicles and more vehicle movements into the mix, and expecting a decrease in fatalities is an interesting combination. From a pragmatic point of view, social marketing in road safety is facing a serious set of challenges from the combination of government policy objectives – an acceptance of zero tolerance whilst increasing population size and vehicle movement. Repositioning Road Safety Death as Possible and Acceptable Death is not an elective outcome from life. Although western society has a bias towards life being regarded as paramount, and death being a function to be avoided (almost at all costs), death is still a non elective outcome. Focusing on zero tolerance objectives as ideals is a different circumstance to refusing to accept that risk is inherent in the use of motor vehicles. The authors do not believe that controllable factors should be negated, nor should campaigns which can influence, reinforce or improving road safety behaviours be cancelled. The question this paper raises is simply a matter of determining what level of death is statistically inevitable from the volume of vehicle movements, population size, and allowing for random chance factors. Road safety relies on more functional elements that personal behaviour alone – consequently, social marketing is facing an unrealistic goal of zero death for risky behaviours that involve negative outcomes that are influenced by random factors such as mechanical failure, luck and or engineering design. Compliance with the 100% death prevention may simply reach a glass ceiling of statistical impossibility. Dealing with Failure at the Individual Level when Succeeding on Aggregate The second major issue that needs to be openly debated and addressed in social marketing broadly, and road safety campaigning specifically, is the question of how much market share is enough? Even assuming that all 330 road deaths in Queensland in 2005 were preventable incidents, those deaths account for less than 2% of the state's death toll. The national average for non-road trauma amongst registered vehicles was 99.986%. When can social marketing claim success for a share of market that is beyond the reach of most commercial marketers? In order to claim success, it would be necessary to demarket the visibility of the failure of road safety campaigns. This would require a reshaping of the treatment of the personal tragedy of road trauma which is unlikely to receive popular support. Further investigation into the composition of the response to road safety trauma would be needed to explore what, if any, aspects of the grieving process could be alleviated through an acceptance of the statistical inevitability of death – blame, control, wishful thinking that "if only" and other facets of the process of coming to terms with loss are areas fraught with ethical considerations that requires much further debate than the space in the paper permits. Questioning the Assumption of Unacceptable Death Death is inevitable in life. However, it is not a life event that is actively encouraged in the Western cultural context. Consequently, admitting that death will occur, and that death in road safety may not be fully preventable is not necessarily a politically or socially palatable issue. However, realistically, death is not preventable per se. Instead, preventable death exists as a functional outcome where the risk of death can be moderate up by higher risk behaviours, or moderated down through precautionary steps. At no point can death be fully eliminated from the behavioural context, even with the strictest adherence to key safety messages. The question for social marketing theory and practice is how to redefine the expectations of the target market, stakeholders and campaign coordinators to accept a level of negative outcomes, including deaths, from the investment to save lives? Conclusion The authors accept in advance that any proposal which suggests that death is a tolerable outcome in a field incorporating zero tolerance campaigns is to ignite controversy. That said, the authors do not accept that death is an alternative to be encouraged, that is, road safety has a place in reducing incidents of trauma and road incidents that are based on controllable behaviours. Acceptable death in the context of road safety is that percentage of road trauma death that can be attributed to luck, compounded factors such as poor luck, poor mechanical conditions, random factors, environmental intervention and other non controllable circumstance. If a healthy people can die of heart disease, despite taking due care and precautions, good drivers can die from road trauma despite taking due care and precautions. Zero tolerance for preventable behaviour must allow tolerance for the unpreventable incidents to be a realistic goal for social marketing in road safety. 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Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is noon
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Pets allowed, Only dogs and cats are allowed, Maximum number of pets per room 2, Pet maximum weight in lb is 80
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Service animals exempt from fees/restrictions
- Pet fee: USD 10.00 per pet, per day (maximum USD 100 per stay)
- Deposit: USD 50.00 per stay
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10.00 per stay
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Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. The property allows pets in specific rooms only and has other pet restrictions (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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TAMPA, Fla. - The Georgetown University volleyball team (7-21, 1-14 BIG EAST) fell in three sets , 25-15, 25-23, 25-22 in its season-finale to the USF Bulls (16-13, 7-8 BIG EAST) on Sunday afternoon at The Corral on campus of University of South Florida.
Sophomore Dani White (Mission Viejo, Calif./Mission Viejo) led the Hoyas with 12 kills and three blocks, while senior middle blocker Lindsay Wise (Raleigh, N.C./Raleigh Charter) hit a team-high .400 with seven kills in the loss.
The Hoyas started slow, as USF extended its lead to nine points midway through the first set, taking advantage of a Hoyas team that hit .185 in the early going. The Bulls got three kills from J'beria Davis down the stretch to win the first set, 25-15 to take a 1-0 advantage.
Georgetown fought the Bulls through the second set forcing five ties and two lead changes. Liz Riggins tied the score at eight points apiece with a kill, before USF gained momentum, opening a six-point, 21-15 lead. The Blue & Gray rallied back, closing to within a point after a service ace from Alex Johnson, followed by a block from White and Brooke Bachesta. USF closed out the set scoring two of the last three points to win 25-23.
The Hoyas continued to battle in the third set,falling behind by four points early in the third set, before a 4-0 run, spurred by a pair of kills each from White and Lauren Saar, tying the game at 12. USF took the lead at 13-12 and never trailed again, despite the Hoyas rallying late to close within two points on back-to-back kills from Saar and White, as the Bulls won the third and final set, 25-22.
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Record: 6-5-1, Finished 3rd in NFL West Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 360 points (30.0/g), 2nd of 10 in the NFL.
Allowed 301 points (25.1/g), 7th.
Differential of 59 points (4.9/g), 4th.
Expected W-L: 7.3-4.7.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +12 (1.0/g), 2nd.
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