The agency has pointed to increasing road deaths, a trend for the last two years, on more reckless behavior on the roads.Ĭonsumer groups have been urging the agency to move more quickly to boost road safety, pointing to increasing accidents and a yearslong backlog in implementing safety rules.
NHTSA also said that behavioral research from March through June showed that speeding and traveling without a seat belt remain higher than before the coronavirus pandemic. It will take all levels of government, industries, advocates, engineers and communities across the country working together toward the day when family members no longer have to say good-bye to loved ones because of a traffic crash.” “'We cannot and should not accept these fatalities as simply a part of everyday life in America,' Buttigieg said in a statement Thursday.
