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List of FMCSA standards for motor vehicles Archived 2013-03-28 at the Wayback Machine "Timeline of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards by Year and Notable Technologies" (PDF). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-06-24
Systematic motor-vehicle safety efforts began during the 1960s. In 1960, unintentional injuries caused 93,803 deaths; [5] 41% were associated with motor-vehicle crashes. In 1966, after Congress and the general public had become thoroughly horrified by five years of skyrocketing motor-vehicle-related fatality rates, the enactment of the Highway Safety Act created the National Highway Safety ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA / ˈ n ɪ t s ə / NITS-ə) [8] is an agency of the U.S. federal government, part of the Department of Transportation, focused on transportation safety in the United States.
Federal Highway Administration: $43,049.7 2,782 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration: $580.4 1,175 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: $869.0 639 Federal Transit Administration: $11,782.6 585 Federal Railroad Administration: $1,699.2 934 Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration: $249.6 575 Maritime ...
[6] [7] The National Safety Council (NSC), a nonprofit safety advocacy group, estimates U.S. motor vehicle deaths in 2016 were 40,200, a 14% increase from its 2014 estimate. [8] After decades of improvements in road safety for pedestrians, the pedestrian death rate in the United States has skyrocketed since 2009 while most comparable countries ...
Indianapolis will receive nearly $20 million in federal grant funding for roadway and pedestrian safety improvements, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Thursday.
This is less than half the national rate of 1.26. About 350 people died in road collisions last year. Minnesota had 0.71 road fatalities for every 100 million miles. The number of fatalities in ...
Highway Safety Improvement: The act provided funding for capital improvements to roads that improved safety, such as guard rails or improved railway-road at-grade crossings. The act also required DOT to establish program of data collection, research, and demonstration programs to improve highway safety by improving highway construction standards.