Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
Advocates has sent a letter to members of the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security supporting Senate Bill (S) 1699/House Bill (H) 2688 to upgrade Massachusetts’s seat belt law to primary enforcement for all occupants. Massachusetts lags in seat belt use. In 2023, seat belt use was only 80.4 percent in Massachusetts (45th out of the…
read moreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement of Cathy Chase, President, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates), on Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) 2024 Booster Seat Rankings Washington, DC, January 24, 2024 | Today, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) released ratings on booster seats put on the market in 2023, which shows that most of those reviewed received the…
read moreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 31, 2017 Contact: Allison Kennedy, (202) 408-1711, [email protected] Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety Presents Second Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Highway Safety Leadership Award and the Inaugural Clarence M. Ditlow III Safety Champion Award (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – This evening, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) presented the second Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Highway Safety Leadership…
read moreHelp NHTSA turn car safety around: Our view The Editorial Board, 7:49 p.m. EDT June 15, 2015 Federal watchdog now has the will and the leader needed for change. Congress needs to deliver the way. When the nation’s car safety watchdog fails to do its job, people are killed and maimed. Among the most recent casualties: Kylan Langlinais, of Lafayette,…
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