Government Recommendations to Reduce Serious Injury and Fatal Accidents
The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently gave a speech and provided recommendations to reduce the number of serious injury and fatal motor vehicle accidents on the roads in the U.S. The speech focused on improving education, enforcement and engineering solutions related to improving safety among drivers.
Among the specific recommendations cited to reduce serious injury and fatal accidents were: booster seats for children ages 8 and under, enacting primary seat belt laws (When a seat belt violation is a primary law, a police officer is allowed to stop a driver based on that offense alone. In Florida, a seat belt violation is a secondary law which means a police officer may not pull a driver over for the seat belt violation alone but may pull a driver over for other reasons and give the driver an additional ticket for failing to wear the seat belt.), enacting restrictions on teen driving and teens driving with other inexperienced, young drivers and enacting laws to prohibit the use of cell phones and other mobile communication devices while driving.
