Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
On Eve of Senate Debate on Surface Transportation Bill, Safety Advocates, Crash Victims’ Families, and Members of Congress to Launch Renewed Push to Adopt Pro-Safety Provisions and Dump Pro-Industry Rollbacks Partisan Bill Departs from Historical Bipartisan Senate Actions to Combat Highway Deaths and Injuries Nearly 200,000 People Will Be Killed and 14 Million Injured in Crashes over 6 Years Unless Commonsense and…
read moreOn Eve of Senate Commerce Committee Markup, Highway Safety Advocacy Groups, Crash Victims and Members of Congress to Hold Media Conference Call to Expose Fatal Flaws in Chairman’s Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill For First Time in 25 Years, Separate Highway Bills Are Introduced that May Put Politics Before Public Safety Safety organizations and advocates also released a letter to Chairman Thune (R-SD) and…
read moreJackie Gillan, President, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, Daphne Izer, Founder, Parents Against Tired Truckers, Jennifer Tierney, N.C. Volunteer Coordinator, Truck Safety Coalition, Joan Claybrook, Chair, Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways, Jack Gillis, Director of Public Affairs, Consumer Federation of America “The Democratic and Republican Members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee have two distinctly different…
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