Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
Statement by Cathy Chase, President, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates), on New Data on 2024 Q-1 Traffic Crash Fatalities June 25, 2024 | (Washington, DC): While we are pleased traffic fatalities experienced a modest overall decline in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) 2024 first quarter estimates, they remain historically and egregiously high. In just three months, 8,650 people…
read moreAdvocates has sent a letter today to leaders of the New Jersey Senate Transportation Committee opposing Senate Bill (S.) 3309/Assembly Bill (A.) 4380. This legislation includes a provision to allow dealers to sell used cars subject to an open safety recall by merely notifying the customer at the time of sale about the unrepaired defect instead of fixing it. Families…
read moreAdvocates has sent a letter to the chair and vice chair of the House Criminal Justice Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives in support of House Bill (HB) 536 to upgrade the seat belt, child booster seat and child restraint for children who outgrow a booster seat laws to primary enforcement. Seat belt usage is exceptionally low in Ohio,…
read moreAdvocates and 14 others have sent a letter to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg calling on the Department of Transportation (DOT) to issue the final rule without further delay to require automatic emergency braking (AEB) on new vehicles weighing greater than 10,000 pounds with a compliance date that will maximize safety benefits. Congress required that this rulemaking be completed by…
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