Larry Kendall is the Regional Director of the West Virginia Governor’s Highway Safety Program. His program area includes the western counties of the state. He is also the Director of the Safe Traffic Operations Program (STOP) located in Huntington. He has been the regional traffic safety director for 15 years. He began his career at the City of Huntington as a communications operator/dispatcher for the Huntington Police Department. After 14 years in the police department, he moved to the public works department in the traffic engineering division working as the City’s Traffic Engineering Technical Assistant for three years. On December 7, 1988, he took over the reigns of the then newly created Safe Traffic Operations Program.  He has also been the West Virginia Contact for SADD National for the past six years.

     The Mission of STOP is to reduce the number of crashes, injuries and fatalities on West Virginia’s streets and highways. STOP’s programs include DUI prevention, seat belt and child safety seat education, corporate safety programming, and various youth programs including SADD of West Virginia. 

     As the contact for SADD-West Virginia, Larry’s goals include increasing the number of SADD chapters in West Virginia and increasing the awareness about SADD and SADD’s objectives to schools, corporate agencies, law enforcement and legislators throughout West Virginia.

     If you wish to obtain information about SADD or about STOP’s many projects, contact the STOP Office.