{"id":88962,"date":"2022-11-15T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/framinghamsource.com\/?p=88962"},"modified":"2022-11-17T22:32:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T03:32:21","slug":"sen-markey-calls-on-nhtsa-to-implement-critical-safety-provisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/framinghamsource.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/15\/sen-markey-calls-on-nhtsa-to-implement-critical-safety-provisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Markey Calls on NHTSA To Implement Critical Safety Provisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In full transparency, the following is a media release from Sen. Ed Markey, who was elected by voters in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to serve the state in Washington DC in the US Senate. He is a Democrat.<\/em> (stock photo) SOURCE publishes press release from elected leaders as a community service.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WASHINGTON DC – On the first anniversary of the passage of the\u00a0Bipartisan Infrastructure Law<\/em>, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today led their colleagues Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-N.M.) in a letter to the Department of Transportation\u2019s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) requesting an update on NHTSA\u2019s implementation of critical safety provisions in the law. With deadly motor vehicle crashes in the United States reaching a sixteen-year high in 2021, the lawmakers urged NHTSA to move expeditiously to issue safety regulations and reverse this alarming trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNearly 43,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes in 2021, the highest number in sixteen years, and according to preliminary numbers, 2022 has been equally, if not more, deadly,\u201d\u00a0wrote the Senators in their letter.\u00a0\u201cFortunately, the IIJA required NHTSA to take much-needed action to ensure this road safety crisis comes to a dead end. We, therefore, urge NHTSA to swiftly implement key safety provisions in the law and reverse this frightening trend in motor vehicle fatalities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/strong>\u201cWhen issuing new safety measures, regulators have too often crawled through yellow lights or stalled at red lights. By passing a historic, bipartisan infrastructure law, Congress gave NHTSA the green light to put its pedal to the metal to reduce motor vehicle fatalities,\u201d\u00a0they concluded.
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Specifically, the Senators requested NHTSA provide a written update on its progress in implementing ten safety provisions secured in the\u00a0Bipartisan Infrastructure Law<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n