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Alabama Teens and Driving Safety: Tips for Parents
Be an example of a safe and courteous driver (i.e. avoid speeding, do not use cell phone while driving). Discuss safe driving habits with your teen. Enroll your teen in a driver’s education course.
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Alabama Teens and Driving Safety: Tips for Teens
Always wear your seatbelt and require all passengers to buckle up. Adjust your seat and mirrors for clear visibility before starting the vehicle. Limit the number of passengers in your vehicle based on your driving experience and the number of working seatbelts.
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GHSA Applauds NTSB for Raising Profile of Speeding as Highway Safety Risk
Speeding is often a forgotten issue Statement for attribution to Jonathan Adkins, GHSA Executive Director WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) thanks the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for studying and evaluating approaches to reduce speeding-related traffic crashes and raising awareness of this critical safety issue. Speeding is a factor in approximately the same […]
Alabama Updates Commercial Learner’s Permit Procedures
Alabama is updating its commercial learner’s permit (CLP) to comply with recent Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulation. In the coming days, the state will start issuing a separate document for the CLP that is valid for 180 days, but applicants can renew it one time for an additional 180 days without retaking the knowledge […]
Report Scans Marijuana Legalization’s Impacts on Impaired Driving Systems
Law enforcement, prosecution, adjudication, and toxicology among areas examined WASHINGTON, D.C. – The legalization of marijuana for medicinal or recreational use at the state level has the potential to have downstream effects on the entire impaired driving system. In its first completed research project, the National Cooperative Research and Evaluation Program (NCREP) convened a group […]
High Claims: Legalizing Recreational Marijuana Use is Linked to Increase in Crashes
Legalizing recreational marijuana use in Colorado, Oregon and Washington has resulted in collision claim frequencies that are about 3% higher overall than would have been expected without legalization, a new Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) analysis shows. This is HLDI’s first look at how the legalization of marijuana since 2014 has affected crashes reported to […]
States Should Consider the Risk of Marijuana-Impaired Driving as New Research Links Legalization to Crash Increase
Statement for attribution to Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) Executive Director Jonathan Adkins WASHINGTON, D.C. – New research from the Highway Data Loss Institute (HLDI) reinforces the need for states to consider the risk of marijuana-impaired driving as they move toward liberalizing marijuana laws. HLDI insurance claims data links legalizing recreational marijuana to an increase in motor […]
Railroad Safety Advocates Hope Task Force Will Help Public Safety
Railroad safety advocates want drivers to understand when they come to a railroad crossing, they should think “danger.” “Based on 2016 statistics, we currently rank eighth in the nation for the number of vehicle train collisions and number eighth in the number of fatalities. ” Nancy Hudson, Alabama Operation Lifesaver program said. The Alabama Task […]
New Reports Calls States to Take Action on Drug-Impaired Driving
Law Enforcement Training Grants Fill Critical Gap WASHINGTON, D.C.—With more states legalizing marijuana and record numbers of people dying from drug overdoses, concerns about drug-impaired driving are escalating. While we have made progress in combatting drunk driving in recent decades, drug use by drivers continues to rise. In fact, in 2015 (the most recent national […]