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.
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Solid Evidence for Passage of the Safe Teen and Novice Driver Uniform Protection (STANDUP) Act
According to a New Study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Click here for Advocates' press release and here for the report.
New Report Shows Safety Laws Save Lives, Billions in Costs
Safety Advocates Call on Congress to Pass Unfinished Highway and Auto Safety Agenda.
Click here for the press kit, including press release and report.
Click here for a video of the press event.
Advocates' President, Judie Stone, discusses the STANDUP Act
during an interview with Minnesota Public Radio on Teen Driving Public Policy.
Click here to listen to the show broadcast on April 27, 2010.
See Advocates on C-SPAN!
Our press conference for The 2010 Roadmap to State Highway Safety Laws was featured on January 11, 2010.
Please click here to view the digital archive, available on C-SPAN's Video Library.
LATE BREAKING:
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.
