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Project Underway: The project will develop educational resources to support parents and caregivers in talking with teens about cannabis impaired driving and impaired driving laws.

Project Underway: The objective of the research is to identify how enforcement activity has changed in recent years, and associate those changes with corresponding changes in crashes, injuries, and/or fatalities. Statistical comparisons can describe those factors that may be significant and guide future investments in enforcement and prioritization among policing agencies.

The Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria, also known as MMUCC, is a voluntary guideline that represents a minimum, standardized set of data variables to describe motor vehicle traffic crashes, which could be used to identify traffic safety problems and design countermeasures to improve traffic safety nationally and in each state.

This issue of GHSA's newsletter celebrates the association's 2023 accomplishments, summarizes recent traffic safety news and spotlights the Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program.

GHSA supports mandating alcohol detection technology on new passenger vehicles and encouarges NHTSA to finalize its proposed rule to move this forward.

Traffic safety cameras are an underutilized tool in the fight to reduce dangerous driving behaviors such as speeding and red light running.

A GHSA and State Farm® explores the benefits of using traffic safety cameras to detect speeding, red-light running and school bus stap-arm violations in a new report.

GHSA has partnered with Lyft and Responsibliy.org to provide grants for states to promote the use of ride-hailing rather than driving after consuming alcohol and/or another impairing substance.

We will not be able to eliminate crashes, deaths and injuries on our roads without utilizing all the tools at our disposal, including infrastructure, vehicle safety, post-crash care and behavioral interventions like education, enforcement and community programs.

GHSA and GM are supporting grants to create and evaluate local distracted driving prevention programs in the District of Columbia (D.C.) and Washington state.