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Joint Statement on INVEST in America Act

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 3, 2020 CONTACT: Pete Daniels, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety pdaniels@saferoads.org / 301-442-2249 (C) Joint Statement: “INVEST in America Act” Advances Crucial Safety Improvements That Will Reduce the Carnage on U.S. Roadways U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) today released a wide-ranging transportation package, the INVEST in America Act,…

Coalition Warns Congress About Bigger, Heavier Trucks

Ahead of tomorrow’s hearing on the FAST Act, consumer, health, and safety groups, families of truck crash victims and survivors, law enforcement, first responders, as well as labor, trucking and rail organizations asked the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit to oppose any attempt to increase federal truck size and weight limits. Bigger, heavier trucks will add more strain to our Nation’s already-stressed infrastructure. Congress has previously rejected these anti-safety measures and should do so again, particularly since truck crashes continue to rise.

Truck Size and Weight Funding Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee

A diverse coalition of state and national organizations representing public health and safety groups, truck drivers, rail interests, labor unions, law enforcement, and others warned against any attempt to use the U.S. DOT appropriations bill to increase or circumvent current truck size and weight limits.

Letter to Senate on Deadly Takata Airbags & Driverless Cars

A coalition of organizations representing public health and safety professionals, smart growth advocates, bicyclists, pedestrians, consumers, first responders, and individuals with disabilities urged the leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee to ensure that future tragedies like exploding Takata airbags are not repeated with the mass deployment of experimental autonomous vehicles, or driverless cars. Both the Takata recall and the tragic crash late Sunday where an Uber being driven in autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian show what happens when vehicles are allowed on public roads without proper government safeguards and oversight.