Traffic Records

“This is one aspect of a much larger problem,’’ said Jonathan Adkins, chief executive of the Governors Highway Safety Association. “We are giving the public too much permission to flout rules.”

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The Federal Highway Administration published a notice of proposed rulemaking on Feb. 21 to update the existing Highway Safety Improvement Program regulations. The updates aim to incorporate the Safe System Approach and align with the safety and equity priorities of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Roadway Safety Strategy.

Travel on U.S. roads in 2023 rose 2.1% to 3.263 trillion miles setting a new yearly record and topping pre-COVID 19 levels for the first time, the Transportation Department said Thursday. The increase in driving comes as more Americans are returning to offices for work as businesses and federal agencies push workers to return. U.S. road deaths rose sharply after the COVID pandemic but have started to decline. Traffic deaths fell 4.5% in the first nine months of the year to 30,435.

“We’re at a pivot point from the way it was to the way it will be in the future. We, as a community, are trying to figure out what we need to change in order to preserve the benefits from traffic enforcement but to correct systemic problems we see,” Russ Martin, GHSA’s senior director of policy and government relations, told Vox.

GHSA's Annual Report highlights the Association's accomplishments for the 2020 Fiscal Year (July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020).

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August 1, 2017

Contact: Madison Forker, 202-789-0942 x120
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GHSA's latest Annual Report highlights the association's activities and accomplishments throughout the 2017 Fiscal Year (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017).

Collecting good data is essential in planning effective highway safety programs. Traffic crash and fatality data is collected and maintained at the local, state and national levels in a variety of databases.