This report, the second 'Roadmap to Highway Safety Laws', evaluates all 50 states and the District of Columbia on their progress in adopting critical highway safety laws identified by Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety as necessary to reducing the tragic toll of deaths and injuries caused by motor vehicle crashes. The report is divided into four issue sections: Adult Occupant Protection (2 laws); Child Passenger Safety (1 law); Teen Driving (4 laws); and Impaired Driving (7 laws). The 14 laws that are listed in the four sections are extremely important for states to have, although they do not comprise the entire list of effective public policy interventions states may take to reduce motor vehicle deaths and injuries. States are rated only on whether they have a certain law, not on how they enforce their laws or educate their citizens, or on the number of statewide fatalities. Within each issue section an explanation is provided about the law(s) and a state law chart, in alphabetical order, is provided with each state's rating. (Author/publisher)
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