Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety

Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety is an alliance of consumer, health and safety groups and insurance companies and agents working together to make America's roads safer.

Advocates encourages the adoption of federal and state laws, policies and programs that save lives and reduce injuries. By joining its resources with others, Advocates helps build coalitions to increase participation of a wide array of groups in public policy initiatives which advance highway and auto safety.

Advocates is in the process of updating our new website.  Thank you for your patience.
 

LATE BREAKING:

February 1, 2012
Dangerous House Bill will Allow Overweight, Oversized Trucks on Highways--Diverse Coalition of Labor, Law Enforcement, Safety Groups, AAA, Local Government, Victims and Survivors Oppose Bigger Trucks Bill as Deadly Public Safety Threat.
Please click here for the statement by Advocates' President Jackie Gillan and visit the Truck Safety Coalition for the full press kit.

January 11, 2012
Advocates releases the 2012 Roadmap to State Highway Safety Laws.
Please click here for the webcast of the news conference held on January 11, 2012 and the press kit.

January 9, 2012
Advocates to release the 2012 Roadmap to State Highway Safety Laws on January 11, 2012.
Press conference to be held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. at 10:00 AM EST in the Zenger Room.  A free live webcast and electronic press kit will be available on our website. 
Click here for the media alert.

December 22, 2011
New Rule on Truck Driver Hours Still Puts Lives at Risk--Agency Fails to Take Action to Reduce Driver Fatigue
Click here for the press release.

December 8, 2011
Safety Advocates Praise Introduction of Truck and Bus Safety Bill--Jump In Truck Crash Fatalities in 2010 Signals Urgent Need for Strong Safety Actions
Click here for the press release.

November 30, 2011
Advocates' Vice President and General Counsel, Henry Jasny, testified on November 30, 2011 before the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee regarding "The Price of Uncertainty: How Much Could DOT's Proposed Billion Dollar Service Rule Cost Consumers this Holiday Season?"
Click here for the statement.

November 30, 2011
Safety Groups, Victims and Survivors, and Labor Urge Congress Not to Bow to Special Interests on Life and Death Safety Issue as House Committee Considers Truck Driver Hours of Service (HOS) Rule
Click here for the press kit, including press release. 

October 18, 2011
Parents mark National Teen Driver Safety Week by urging Members of Congress to support the STANDUP Act.
Please visit the Saferoads4teens Coalition for more information.

October 7, 2011
Parents, Spouses and Children who have lost loved ones needlessly killed in or seriously injured in crashes caused by fatigued truck drivers, as well as organizations representing public health and safety advocates, truck drivers, victims and survivors of truck crashes urge the adoption of lifesaving reforms to the current Hours of Service (HOS) rules proposed by Secretary Ray Lahood of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Click here to view the letter from families, and here for letter from organizations.

July 29, 2011
Safety Advocates Praise Senate Introduction of Motor Vehicle and Highway Safety Legislation.
Click here for the press release.

July 27, 2011
Advocates' Vice President, Jackie Gillan, testified on July 27, 2011 before the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee regarding Improving Highway and Vehicle Safety: Reauthorization of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Click here for the statement.

May 11, 2011
Advocates Calls on Congress to Focus on Better Teen Driving Laws in Every State. The Safe Teen and Novice Driver Uniform Protection (STANDUP) Act Will Address the #1 Killer of Teens in U.S. as Global Road Safety Decade is Launched
Click here for the press release.

April 1, 2011
Advocates' President, Judie Stone, testified on March 29, 2011 before the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee regarding Improving and Reforming the Nation's Surface Transportation Programs.
Click here for the statement. 

March 8, 2011
Parents, Teens and Safety Advocates Join Sponsors of the Safe Teen and Novice Driver Uniform Protection (STANDUP) Act and Lobby Congress for Comprehensive Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) Laws in Every State to Curb #1 Killer of Nation's Youth
Click here for the press kit, including press release.

March 1, 2011
Fourth Anniversary of Motorcoach Crash that Killed and Injured Bluffton University Baseball Team Members Marks Introduction of Legislation to Correct Dangerous and Unaddressed Safety Problems
Click here for the press release.

January 31, 2011
Advocates commends today's proposed motor carrier safety rule by the Federal Motor Carrier Administration to require the use of electronic on-board recorders (EOBRs) on long-haul commercial vehicles.
Click here for the statement.

January 24, 2011
Advocates releases The 2011 Roadmap to State Highway Safety Laws
Please click here for the webcast of the news conference held on January 24, 2011 and the press kit.

January 19, 2011
Advocates to release the 2011 Roadmap to State Highway Safety Laws on January 24, 2011.
Press conference to be held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. at 10:00 AM EST in the Zenger Room.  A free live webcast and electronic press kit will be available on our website.
Click here for the media alert.

December 23, 2010
Safety Groups Say New Trucking Rule Still Puts Lives at Risk
Click here for the press release.

November 16, 2010
Advocates lauds the National Transportation Safety Board for Adding Motorcycle Helmet Laws to "Most Wanted" List, Urges Congress to Enact Overdue Traffic Safety Recommendations
Click here for the press release.

September 28, 2010
"Passage Now of Safe Teen and Novice Driver Uniform Protection (STANDUP) Act Would Stem Reckless Annual Tide of Thousands of Teen Car Crash Deaths"
Press conference to be held at 12:00 Noon at U.S. Capitol, Room H. 137.  Click here for the press release.

July 21, 2010
"No Time to Waste" on Toyota Reform Bill, Says Coalition of Victims, Safety and Consumer Groups, Former Agency Administrators
Press conference to be held at 1:00PM EST at 2322 Rayburn House Office Building.  Click here for the press kit, including a press release.

July 7, 2010
Advocates Again Supports USDOT Secretary Ray LaHood's Distracted Driving Efforts and Applauds Demise of Counter Coalition
Click here for the statement and here for Secretary LaHood's remarks.

April 29, 2010
Advocates' Vice President, Jackie Gillan, testified on April 28, 2010 before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Technology Committee regarding the Oversight of Motor Carrier Transportation Efforts.
Please click here for the statement.

April 28, 2010
Advocates and the Saferoads4teens Coalition Support Senate Introduction of the Safe Teen and Novice Driver Uniform Protection (STANDUP) Act on April 27, 2010.
Click here for the statement.

April 12, 2010
Advocates congratulates Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post and Matt Richtel of the New York Times for winning Pulitzer prizes for journalism.
Click here for Weingarten's prize-winning story about endangering kids in and around cars, and here for Richtel's prize-winning series on distracted driving.

January 11, 2010
Advocates releases The 2010 Roadmap to State Highway Safety Laws
Please click here for the webcast of the news conference held on January 11, 2010 and the press kit.

January 6, 2010
Advocates to release THE 2010 ROADMAP TO STATE HIGHWAY SAFETY LAWS on January 11, 2010. 
Press conference to be held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. at 11:30AM EST in the Zenger Room.  A free live webcast and electronic press kit will be available on our website. 
Click here for the media alert.

December 17, 2009
Families of crash victims and safety groups praise major highway safety victory, urge Congress to swiftly send the Motorcoach Enhanced Safety Act (S.554) to President
Click here for the press release and press kit.

December 8, 2009
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety names new Board of Directors co-chairs: Bill Martin, Senior Vice President of Farmers Insurance, and Joan Claybrook, President Emeritus of Public Citizen
Click here for the press release.

November 30, 2009
Parents, teens, medical personnel, firefighters, insurance executives, and safety advocates join Rep. Castle to urge enactment of national STANDUP Act to accelerate state passage of Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) laws for novice teen drivers
Click here for the press release.