ROADMAP TO SAFETY REPORTS

• Complete 2025 Roadmap to Safety
• Specific Issue Sections
• States at a Glance section
• Press Release
• Media Alert
• Advocates December 2024 public opinion survey

Every day in the U.S., millions of people get behind the wheel, commuting to work or school, carpooling kids to music lessons or athletic events, or going to the market or a local hardware store. Not one of them thinks they are going to get into a crash, and yet an average of 116 people are killed, and more than 6,500 people are injured in motor vehicle crashes every day. With traffic fatalities at alarmingly high levels and effective solutions within reach, we offer the 2025 Roadmap to Safety report to turn around the drastic and deadly consequences of crashes that we all think will never happen to us, until they do.

• Complete 2024 Roadmap to Safety
• Specific Issue Sections
• States at a Glance section
• Press Release
• Media Alert

Motor vehicle crash fatalities and injuries are a public health crisis and a national tragedy. In recent years, a daily average of nearly 120 people are killed and approximately 6,800 are injured. The Roadmap to Safety offers proven solutions to lawmakers and regulatory agencies to end this nightmare, yet no state has enacted all 16 recommendations. We have a prime opportunity to save lives, and we need our leaders to put this report into action now for the safety of the traveling public. Let’s get going!

• Full Roadmap Report
• Table of Contents Links
• Press Release
• Media Advisory

Over the past 20 years, more than three-quarters of a million people were killed and 51.5 million more were injured in motor vehicle crashes. Yet, no state has attained a perfect score in our annual ratings. Further, the U.S., once a leader, has fallen behind our international counterparts in adopting measures to enhance safety. We must change that, and the Roadmap to Safety offers the tools. Advocates challenges our nation’s federal and state leaders to take this report and implement it — now.

• Full Roadmap Report
• Updates Since Release
• Press Release
• Roadmap Report Cover
• Poll on Roadway Safety
• “Best and Worst States”
• Learn About My State
• Overall State Ratings Map
• Legislative Activity Handout
• Speaker Statements
• Speaker Biographies
• Media Advisory

We offer the 2022 Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws as a commonsense guide to “control” the chaos on our roads. Working together, we can steer our country onto a steady course of safe drivers, passengers and road users, safe vehicles, and safe roadways.

• Full Roadmap Report
• Press Release
• Roadmap Report Cover
• “Best and Worst States”
• Learn About My State
• Overall State Ratings Map
• Legislative Activity Handout
• Speaker Statements
• Speaker Biographies
• Media Advisory

The traumatic and dramatic challenges experienced in 2020 have been unprecedented in modern
day, yet there is still some good news. The tried-and-true solutions of prevention and mitigation
continue to be effective.

• Full Roadmap Report
• Updates Since the Release
• Media Advisory
• Press Release
• “Best and Worst States”
• Overall State Ratings Map
• Legislative Activity Handout
• Opinion Poll on Distracted Driving and Marijuana-Impaired Driving
• Speaker Statements and Speaker Bios.

As we enter a new decade, a tremendous opportunity stands before us to dramatically improve safety on our Nation’s roads. Now is the time for attention, activism and action.

• Full Roadmap Report
• Updates since the Release
• Media Advisory
• Press Release
• “Best and Worst States”
• Overall State Ratings Map
• Legislative Activity Handout
• Speaker Statements and Speaker Bios

• Full Report and Updates since the release of the Report
• “Best and Worst States”
• Press Kit including Speakers’ Statements

Advocates is hopeful that in the long term driverless cars will be the catalyst for eliminating crash deaths and injuries. In the near term, adopting comprehensive safety laws and using proven roadway and in-vehicle technologies are the safest and surest route to addressing this major public health epidemic.

Data from the U.S. DOT shows second year of alarming increases in traffic fatalities. Yet, effective safety remedies to save lives and prevent injuries are ignored in state capitals across the country — “Have We Forgotten What Saves Lives?”

• Full Report and Updates since the report release.
• “Best and Worst States”
• Press Kit including Speaker Statements

Traffic fatalities are on the rise and state legislatures are missing in action. Last year, the fewest number of states passed critical highway safety laws since Advocates’ first Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws was published in 2004. It’s time for state leaders to get to work.

• Full Report and the Updates since January 2016.
• Press Kit Including Speaker Statements

This year’s Roadmap Report puts the spotlight on “Lethal Loopholes” in state highway safety laws — resulting in unprotected drivers and passengers and leading to preventable deaths, injuries and costs. By closing these lethal loopholes we can save more lives.

Full Report

While 2012 highway deaths are up, state legislative action is down. 11th annual Roadmap Report highlights dangerous gaps in state traffic safety laws.

Full Report

A major surface transportation authorization bill passed by Congress last summer and signed into law by President Obama on July 6, 2012 includes several important provisions to improve the safety of vehicles, drivers and roads. In particular, new incentive grant programs were established to encourage state enactment of comprehensive teen driver licensing laws, ignition interlock laws for all impaired driving offenders, distracted driving laws and occupant protection programs.

Full Report