http://www.crashprevention.org News from The Partnership for Safe Driving en-us info2@crashprevention.org info2@crashprevention.org Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.crashprevention.org/news/news.php?iss=21#236 Read an excellent article in The New York Times about the meltdown in truck safety that has taken place under the Bush Administration, which hired prominent trucking industry lobbyists to deregulate the trucking industry. Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.crashprevention.org/news/news.php?iss=21#235 The National Transportation Safety Board urges the government to forbid motor coach and school bus drivers from using cell phones while driving; and the Presidential motorcade suffers a fatal crash. Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.crashprevention.org/news/news.php?iss=21#234 Listen to a candid radio discussion about the road safety crisis in America as Partnership founder Lisa Lewis discusses her book with Host Diane Horn of the Sustainability Segment at KEXP radio in Seattle. Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.crashprevention.org/news/news.php?iss=21#233 The Partnership is looking for partners who can help us launch a new initiative to regulate speed governor settings on automobiles. A central component of the National Initiative on Speed Governor Settings will be a campaign to educate the public about the existence of speed governors on most vehicles, the fact that they are not regulated, and the consequences of this lack of regulation. Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.crashprevention.org/news/news.php?iss=21#232 The Partnership for Safe Driving is inching forward with plans for the first-ever Run and Walk for Road Safety and has recently recruited a U.S. senator to serve on our Honorary Committee for this proposed national event. Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.crashprevention.org/news/news.php?iss=21#231 After six long years of wrangling over the issue, California lawmakers finally decided that using cell phones while driving is indeed dangerous and must be stopped -- not now, but in July 2008. Yep, that's right. The law does not take effect for nearly two years. Welcome to the Twilight Zone. Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.crashprevention.org/news/news.php?iss=21#230 Elected officials are refusing to address the elderly driving crisis in America, for fear that doing so will get them booted out of office. However, at least some of this fear appears to be unfounded. There is a equitable solution to the problem for those who are truly looking for one. Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.crashprevention.org/news/news.php?iss=21#229 On November 20th, a school bus in Huntsville, Alabama plunged off a highway overpass, killing four teens and injuring more than a dozen others, three of them critically. This horrific tragedy has revived the long-standing debate about why there are no seatbelts on school buses. But a whole lot of other questions begged to be answered as well.