Each state to receive Report Card on lifesaving road safety laws

MEDIA ALERT: 2010 Report Card on Highway Safety – Each state to be graded 
on enacting lifesaving traffic safety laws. 
Safety advocates, state and federal transportation safety leaders to 
spotlight model state laws to curb traffic deaths and injuries, put focus on 
congressional measures to spur state action. 
***Webcast and Satellite Newsfeed of “2010 Roadmap to State Highway Safety 
Laws�?? News Announcement*** 
WHAT:            NEWS CONFERENCE – As state legislatures across the nation 
open their 2010 sessions, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety will unveil 
its “2010 ROADMAP TO STATE HIGHWAY SAFETY LAWS�?? report grading each state 
and the District of Columbia on passage of model traffic safety laws 
addressing teen driving, distracted driving, drunk driving, and the required use of 
seat belts, child booster seats, and motorcycle helmets. 
The 2010 report will feature the best and worst performing states, states 
making the most and least progress over the past year, dangerous loopholes in 
each state that contribute to preventable death and injury, and 
state-specific data on traffic deaths, injuries and related economic losses. 
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety also will spotlight pending 
congressional initiatives to prod each state to swiftly enact model laws addressing 
teen driving, distracted driving, and drunk driving. 
Over the past decade, an average of 40,000 Americans were killed and 2.5 
million were injured each year in motor vehicle crashes at an economic cost of 
$230 billion – an average of 110 deaths, 7000 injuries and $630 million in 
economic losses every day. 
WHEN:            Monday, January 11, 2010, at 11:30 AM Eastern Time 
WHERE:         National Press Club (Zenger Room), 529 14th St, NW (13th 
Floor), Washington, DC 
WEBCAST:     A live WEBCAST of the news conference and an ELECTRONIC PRESS 
KIT will be available at: _www.saferoads.org_ (http://www.saferoads.org/) .  
Reporters will be able to submit questions by email. 
SATELLITE NEWSFEED:     Time: 11:30 ET to 13:00 ET; Orbital Slot:  97 WL; 
D/L Frequency:  4100 (H) 
Trouble #:  202-662-5706 
WHO:              -- JUDITH LEE STONE (President) and JACQUELINE GILLAN 
(Vice President) of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (_www.saferoads.org_ 
(http://www.saferoads.org/) ) 
-- DEBORAH HERSMAN, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board. 
-- JOHN PORCARI, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation. 
-- CONGRESSMAN CHRIS VAN HOLLEN (D-Maryland), a chief sponsor of the Safe 
Teen and Novice Driver Uniform Protection Act – the STANDUP Act. 
-- SENATOR JOHN CULLERTON (Chicago), Illinois Senate President and one of 
the nation’s top highway safety legislative champions. 
-- SUSAN VAVALA (Wilmington, Delaware), whose teenaged daughter Kim’s death 
in a traffic crash prompted her extraordinary highway safety activism. 
-- DR. JOSEPH WRIGHT, American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s 
National Medical Center (Washington, DC). 
-- DR. STEPHEN HARGARTEN, (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Professor and Chair, Dept 
of Emergency Medicine and Director and Director of the Injury Research 
Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin. 
-- BILL MARTIN (Los Angeles), Senior Vice President of Farmers Insurance 
and Board Co-Chair (Insurance) of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. 
-- JOAN CLAYBROOK, Board Co-Chair (Consumer) of Advocates for Highway and 
Auto Safety. 
MEDIA CONTACT:  Bill Bronrott, 202-270-4415; _bbcomm@aol.com_ 
(mailto:bbcomm@aol.com)