Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
Advocates is asking leadership and members of the Senate Transportation Committee to oppose House Bill (HB) 1298. This legislation will permit an increase in speed limits to 80 miles per hour (mph) on access-controlled, paved and divided, multilane interstate highways across North Dakota, endangering state residents as well as visitors. In 2023, an estimated 106 people died in traffic crash…
read moreAdvocates urges the California State Assembly’s Public Safety Committee to advance Assembly Bill (AB) 366 to make permanent the ignition interlock device (IID) pilot program and upgrade the law to require the use of IIDs by all convicted drunk drivers, including first time offenders. Under current law, a court may require an IID for a first-time offender. Expanding the law…
read moreAdvocates has publicly weighed in with the House Committee on Finance of the West Virginia Legislature to oppose House Bill 2739, which would repeal the all-rider motorcycle helmet use law. Motorcycle riders are nearly 22 times more likely to die in a crash than passenger vehicle occupants. In 2022, 40 motorcyclists lost their lives in West Virginia according to the…
read moreAdvocates has joined other safety organizations to call for the Missouri Senate Committee on the Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence to advance Senate Bill 353 and House Bill 273. These bills will require drunk drivers who enter into a diversion program agreement to utilize an ignition interlock device. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the issue of…
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