Delaware Office of Highway Safety brings trilingual resources promoting safe driving to Perdue

MILFORD, Del.- The First State saw 128 fatal crashes in 2023 alone. Now, the Delaware Office of Highway Safety is partnering with Perdue, to break barriers and spread awareness.

Eliminating fatalities is the top goal for the Delaware Office of Highway Safety. Community Relations Officer, Meghan Niddrie, said bringing the resources to the community is just one way to accomplish it.

“We partner with a lot of our smaller community events, and we’ve done a lot of grassroots outreach this year,” Niddrie said. “We’ve been out in the public talking to people, giving educational materials out, so we just want to keep pushing the message across.”

To Niddrie, reaching all 1,300 employees at the Perdue facility in Milford was crucial. In order to get the message across, they offered the information in three different languages: English, Spanish and Hatian Creole.

“We want everyone to understand the information we’re putting out,” Niddrie said. “We don’t want anyone to be excluded. Everybody uses our roadways, so everyone should be able to receive the message.”

And to help drive that message home, Perdue’s Safety Security Manager, Ron Dukes, provided employees mocktails, a fitting toast to enjoying the holidays, safely and soberly.

“We want to give them the idea about drinking, but drinking nonalcoholic beverages,” Dukes said. “What would you do when you have that drink? Not getting behind the wheel, and not letting someone who has been drinking drive them around.”