A national highway
safety group is urging states to pass stronger traffic safety laws. The Advocates
for Highway and Auto Safety Group released its 10th annual report card grading
states' road safety laws.
Overall, Ohio and Michigan
received a yellow "caution" rating, meaning the states are making
progress but still have some gaps in highway safety measures.
Safety advocates say not
a single state has adopted all 15 of the recommended traffic safety laws.
"We cannot continue
to allow common sense and life-saving safety laws to languish in state
legislatures when the death and injury toll continues to grow," says the
report. "Right now, we're all very focused on the flu epidemic and the flu
epidemic is affecting more than half the states right now. But the highway
crash epidemic affects every single state, every single year, year after year.
And we have the proven vaccines to address this public health epidemic."
One of the
recommendations is a primary enforcement seat belt law, which 18 states still
do not have.
Fourteen states and Washington DC
were given high marks, showing "significant advancement" toward
adopting all the recommended laws.
Click here to view the
full report.
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