Section 1675. Functions of the board

The board is authorized:
    1. To promote and encourage street and highway traffic safety.
    2.  To  formulate  highway  safety  programs and coordinate efforts of
  interested parties and agencies  engaged  in  traffic  safety  education
  within such city, town, borough or county.
    3.  To cooperate with local officials in the formulation and execution
  of traffic safety programs and activities.
    4. To study traffic conditions on  streets  and  highways,  study  and
  analyze  reports  of  accidents and causes thereof, and recommend to the
  appropriate legislative bodies, departments or commissions, such changes
  in rules, orders, regulations and existing law as  the  board  may  deem
  advisable.
    5.  To  conduct meetings whenever and wherever the board shall deem it
  advisable and to invite to such meetings parties  and  agencies,  public
  and  private,  interested  in  traffic  regulation,  control  and safety
  education.
    6. To promote safety education for drivers and pedestrians.
    7. To obtain and assemble motor vehicle accident data, and to analyze,
  study and  consolidate  such  data  for  educational  and  informational
  purposes.
    8.   Coordinate   and   direct   local   activities   related  to  the
  implementation of the state highway safety program, as approved  by  the
  governor or his designee.