A new report from a national safety advocacy group has given nine states — Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming — poor ratings for their “dangerous lack of basic safety laws.”
Each year, Washington, D.C.-based Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety releases its “Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws” report, assessing each state’s laws aimed at promoting safer roads. States are judged based on whether they have the group’s recommended driving safety regulations in place. These recommended laws include a range of restrictions and mandates, such as primary-enforcement seat belt laws, all-driver text messaging bans, motorcycle helmet mandates and ignition interlock requirements.
At the other end of the spectrum, 10 states and Washington, D.C., this year drew the group’s green rating for their progress in adoption of the recommended laws. They are California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington.
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety gave the remaining 31 states a yellow rating, indicating that they showed “moderately positive performance” but still had gaps in their highway safety laws.
The report’s introduction sharply criticized some recent state legislative efforts to relax or repeal safe driving laws already on the books.
“Last year, there were several state legislatures where bills were seriously considered to repeal or weaken laws for seatbelt and motorcycle helmet use, bans on texting while driving, as well as essential protections for novice teen drivers,” noted Jacqueline S. Gillan, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. “These efforts confound logic, commonsense and fiscal responsibility.”
But Gillan commended elected officials in Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia for enacting safety laws meeting the group’s criteria in 2015.
To download the report, click here.
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