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GHSA's 2008 Annual Meeting was focused on how highway safety research can translate
into successful state programs. Nearly 400 highway safety professionals attended, and the meeting generated a great deal of news coverage (see below).
Meeting News
- Presentations
- Photo Highlights
- News Release
- Exhibit Hall Treasure Hunt Winners

- Media Clips
- Panel to push for tough texting-while-driving ban (The Arizona Republic)
- Distracted drivers at risk, experts say (The Arizona Republic)
- Raise driving age, insurance group says (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- Phoenix texting ban called success, despite few citations (KTAR Radio - Phoenix)
- Arizona fights proposals to lower drinking age (KTAR Radio - Phoenix)
- Group calls for higher driving age (The Baltimore Sun)
- Should 16-year-olds drive? (Chicago Tribune)
- Raise driving age to 17 or 18, safety group urges in new report (Detroit Free Press)
- Raise the driving age to 17 or 18? (KWSO-TV - Lawton, OK and Wichita Falls, TX)

GHSA Board Member Pam Fischer is featured in this video clip.
- Teen-driver limits cut crashes, experts say (The Arizona Republic)
- When Should Teens Be Allowed to Drive? (The Wall Street Journal)
- Highway safety experts: lower drinking age, raise driving age (ABC 15/KNXV-TV - Phoenix)

- Caution, teens: Effort to raise driving age ahead (Star Tribune - Minneapolis)
- Report makes a case for raising driving age (USA TODAY)
- Group says states should raise the driving age (The Associated Press)
- Scottsdale traffic meeting to focus on speed cameras
(ABC 15/KNXV-TV - Phoenix, AZ)
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