News Releases

As the voice of highway safety, GHSA produces periodic news releases on topics of importance to its membership and the highway safety community.

GHSA Adopts New Roadway Safety Priorities, Including Support of Lower State BAC Limits, Equity, Safe System Approach

Amid a recent surge in traffic deaths and dangerous driving behaviors, the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) has updated the Policies and Priorities that guide the organization’s work to prevent traffic crashes, injuries and deaths on U.S. roads.

GHSA Praises Long-Awaited Proposal to Require Front and Rear Seat Belt Warnings for Vehicle Drivers

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today announced a new proposed rule to require front and rear seat belt warning systems for drivers in most new vehicles manufactured in the United States. This proposed rulemaking, which was first announced at a GHSA Annual Meeting more than a decade ago, is a long overdue expansion of lifesaving vehicle technology that will help supplement ongoing efforts by State Highway Safety Offices and the traffic safety community to ensure everyone in every vehicle is buckled up.

New Report Provides Toolkit for Behavioral & Engineering Strategies to Improve Rural Road Safety

Rural roads are disproportionately deadly – the risk of serious injury or death is twice as high on a per-mile basis in rural areas than urban areas. Today, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) published a detailed new report and a separate toolkit that will help stakeholders at all levels of the traffic safety planning process identify, implement and adapt programs and initiatives that support safer decisions by road users to reduce crashes and save lives on rural roads. 

GHSA and Responsibility.org Fund Drunk and Drug-Impaired Driving Prevention Programs in Four States

The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) and Responsibility.org have awarded $120,000 in grants to four State Highway Safety Offices (SHSO) for programs designed to combat alcohol, cannabis and multi-substance impaired driving, which accounts for approximately one-third of U.S. traffic deaths annually.

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