Impact of Compliance-Based Removal Laws on Alcohol-Impaired Driving Recidivism
Drunk driving is one of the deadliest yet most preventable behaviors that accounts for nearly one-third of the nation’s traffic crash fatalities.
GHSA's partners provide support for the Association to conduct research and analysis regarding traffic safety issues and trends.
Drunk driving is one of the deadliest yet most preventable behaviors that accounts for nearly one-third of the nation’s traffic crash fatalities.
Rural roads are beautiful, but they’re hiding a deadly secret – nearly half of all fatal crashes occur on them, even though only 19% of the U.S. population lives in rural areas.
GHSA’s report, Directing Drivers’ Attention: A State Highway Safety Office Roadmap for Combating Distracted Driving, offers one of the most comprehensive looks at this pervasive yet preventable traffic safety problem and urges a broad culture shift to make this deadly behavior socially unacceptable.
Teens and Speeding: Breaking the Deadly Cycle, a new report from GHSA and Ford Motor Company Fund, highlights the significant role speeding plays in teen driver fatalities and offers practical tools to help parents rein in this lethal driving habit.
GHSA’s publication, Understanding and Tackling Micromobility: Transportation’s New Disruptor, explores six challenges – oversight, funding, data collection, enforcement, infrastructure and education – and the role State Highway Safety Offices (SHSOs) and their partners can play to help address them.
GHSA's report, High-Risk Impaired Drivers: Combating a Critical Threat, focuses on the challenges and opportunities associated with the high-risk impaired driver — a person who lacks the restraint or self-control to resist driving impaired.
This white paper summarizes the outcomes of a May 8 GHSA/State Farm® interdisciplinary expert panel meeting on traffic safety education and law enforcement amid the advent of automated vehicle technology.
As traffic crashes remain the leading cause of death for teens and young adults, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "Peer-to-Peer Teen Traffic Safety Program Guide," prepared by GHSA, examines the components of successful peer-to-peer programs.
Automated vehicles will bring new and perhaps unanticipated traffic safety issues to the states. GHSA's Preparing for Automated Vehicles: Traffic Safety Issues for States outlines these issues and discusses how law enforcement and State Highway Safety Offices (SHSOs) should prepare for them.
GHSA's Drug-Impaired Driving: Marijuana and Opioids Raise Critical Issues for States presents new research to examine the impact of marijuana and opioids on driving ability and provides recommendations on how best to address these emerging challenges.