GHSA Publications

This GHSA Spotlight on Highway Safety report looks at the issue of bicyclist safety, analyzing how fatality trends and crash patterns have changed since the mid-1970s. Two areas of focus are helmet use and alcohol use by fatally injured cyclists.

This report, made possible with funding from The Allstate Foundation, details promising programs and practices that states are using to encourage teens to wear their seat belts every time they drive or ride in a vehicle.

GHSA projects that the number of motorcyclist traffic fatalities in the United States in 2013 decreased approximately 7 percent.

State Highway Safety Office data showed that the number of pedestrian traffic fatalities in the United States for the first six months of 2013 decreased by 190 – or 8.7%.

States have made great strides in their efforts to combat distracted driving over the past few years. This new report is a compilation of these efforts.

From 2000 to 2011, 19,447 fatal crashes involving teen drivers were speeding-related. Despite a significant drop in overall fatal teen driving crashes during that same time frame, speeding has actually grown slightly as a contributing factor.

This publication examines parents' critical role in helping teens develop into safe drivers, looking at how parents can support state graduated driver licensing laws.

GHSA developed this best practices manual to help highway safety officials and child safety advocates reduce injuries and save children’s lives through improved child occupant protection.