Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
While Louisiana has taken steps to deter this deadly conduct by enacting a prohibition on texting behind the wheel and on the use of devices by novice, young drivers, more can and should be done to reduce the prevalence of visual, manual and cognitive driver distraction caused by device use.
read moreIn 2020, nearly 5,000 people were killed in crashes involving a large truck. Since 2009, the number of fatalities in large truck crashes has increased by 47 percent. Additionally, nearly 147,000 people were injured in crashes involving a large truck that same year. The cost to society from crashes involving large trucks and buses was estimated to be $163 billion in 2019, the latest year for which data is available. Truck driving is one of the most dangerous occupations.
read moreWalking across the street should not be a death-defying act. The data presented by IIHS strengthens the case for adoption of the Safe System Approach to protect pedestrians and other vulnerable road users (VRUs), especially given trends in the U.S. passenger fleet toward larger vehicles and the historically high number of pedestrians killed in 2020, 6,500.
read moreOn March 15, 2022, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates), the Emergency Nurses Association (MDENA), Partnership for a Safer Maryland and the Skilled Motorcyclist Association – Responsible, Trained and Educated Riders, Inc. (SMARTER), submitted a statement to the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee opposing Senate Bill (SB) 745, legislation that would repeal Maryland’s all-rider motorcycle helmet law.
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