Nader Asks Obama to Focus on America’s Safety Needs

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

Ralph Nader tries to focus President Obama on the safety needs of America here at home where there are many clear and present dangers not being adequately addressed.

Nader writes: “Taking Mr. Obama at his often repeated words that “the safety of the American people” is his top priority,…” and then cites many needs here at home.

Please see http://nader.org/2013/09/13/obama-crowding-out-america/

Nader once again has his focus on the public interest here in the U.S. where for decades Americans have seen too many needless tragedies, too much pain, suffering, and economic losses.

We can add some auto safety statistics that President Obama needs to focus on:

    • Currently in the U.S. each day nearly 100 people die of crash injuries — more than half die without transport to a medical treatment facility — and another estimated 400 people suffer serious injuries. U.S. DOT dollar values for preventing such losses currently amount to about $1 Billion each day.
    • In the year 2013, the total number of crash deaths in the U.S.A. since 1900 now exceeds 3,585,000 people. The number injured is estimated to exceed 255,000,000. That is 5 times the number of Americans who died and 150 times the number wounded in all wars since 1776. https://www.careforcrashvictims.com/clock.php
    • In 2013, the National Academy of Sciences reported that the U.S. ranks last in mortality from transportation injuries. “In 2009, the United States had the highest death rate from transportation related accidents among the 17 peer countries…” See Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, p. 32, available at http://nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13497
    • Since 1978 in the U.S., more people have died and suffered serious crash injuries than died or were wounded in all wars since 1776.
    • Since President Obama was elected in 2008, the number of Americans who died of crash injuries is 132,350 and another estimated 500,000 suffered serious crash injuries.

As a citizen, I offered 3 Steps the President could take – without any new legislation – to assure that the losses of American crash victims in his second term do not exceed the losses suffered in his first term. See https://www.careforcrashvictims.com/assets/MonthlyReport-January2013-Vol1.pdf

Mr. President please heed Ralph Nader’s advice. He is right. America needs you to do so. And Yes, you can.

NHTSA CIREN – Defending Rigged Rescue Rules for Crash Victims – Care for Crash Victims


NHTSA CIREN – Defending Rigged Rescue Rules for Crash Victims – Care for Crash Victims

September, 2013

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

 

Hopefully Administrator Strickland will act in the public interest to restore “Rollover” and “Extrication” to the Triage Guidelines and restore credibility and effectiveness to the NHTSA CIREN Program.

 

September 2013 Monthly Report.

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Care for Crash Victims – Building a Safer America


Care for Crash Victims – Building a Safer America

July 30, 2013

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

Attached is my report on Building a Safer America.

I hope it helps you in your safety work.

Best wishes for a Safer America.

 

Monthly Report – July 2013

First National Conference on Street and Highway Safety – Hon Herbert Hoover – 1926

 

Care for Crash Victims – Safer American States – August 2013


Care for Crash Victims – Safer American States – August 2013

July 30, 2013

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

We now have a new State by State Crash Death Mapping tool.

To help voters, consumers, media, and government officials better understand the magnitude of crash deaths and serious injuries we now have Crash Death Mapping Tools. These tools provide 10 years of crash deaths by State and by 2013 Congressional District.

See my attached August Monthly Report for details on a decade of Crash Deaths by State. I hope this helps us all gain political, moral, and economic support to advance safety care for crash victims.

 

Monthly Report – August 2013 – Safer American States – Download

 

Crash Death Mapping Tools

 

 

Ranking Crash Deaths by State — Red and Blue States Compared


Ranking Crash Deaths by State — Red and Blue States Compared

July 18, 2013

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

NHTSA has just issued Fatality Rates by States for the year 2011.

See http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811801.pdf

 

I have analyzed the data by my State Grading and Ranking system as previously published by Fair Warning.

See http://www.fairwarning.org/2012/11/traffic-deaths-a-surprising-dimension-of-the-red-state-blue-state-divide/

The 2011 data show that 21 of the 25 Worst States are Red States.

 

Only 3 Red States achieved Better than National Average Crash Fatality Rate — Utah, Nebraska, and Alaska.

Only 3 Blue States were Worse than the National Average Crash Fatality Rate — Delaware, Florida, and New Mexico.

No States received a Grade of “A” just the Blue District of Columbia achieved an “A” Grade for a fatality Rate of less than 5 Crash Fatalities per 100,000 population.

 

Four States received a Grade of “F” (Wyoming, North Dakota, Mississippi, Montana — all Red States) for Crash Fatality Rates greater than 20 Crash Fatalities per 100,000 population.

 

See my attached Table of States Ranked from Best to Worst.

Media, citizens, and members of Congress can find how many Americans died in their Congressional District in each of the past 10 years. See our Congressional Crash Death Mapping Tool at

http://www.arcgis.com/explorer/?open=ed97b17427b74b2e87ab925d55eb1313&extent=-20659591.7409969,875765.608846319,-3093254.85263374,8576895.45964956

 

Hopefully this information will help advance support for improvements in safety for all.

We can and must do better at protecting people from becoming crash victims.

 

Click here to download attached document.

 

 

The Jeep "Recall" — If Chrysler Had a Heart…


The Jeep "Recall" — If Chrysler Had a Heart…

July 9, 2013

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

Please watch this video. A crash victim gives a first hand description of some of the consequences of serious burn injuries suffered in a crash. http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/264655/37/Jeep-Crash-Survivors-Push-NHTSA-For-More-Action

 

When Joan Claybrook was NHTSA Administrator, I had a small part in studies on the consequences of crashes on children and families. These studies are now on my web site at www.CareForCrashVictims.com under “Effects on Families”.

The NHTSA Report attached (p. 70) shows that each year there are about 1,000 fatal crashes involving fire and about 3,000 injury crashes involving fire.

 

If Chrysler had a heart and NHTSA had the courage of a Joan Claybrook….

We can and must do better protecting motorists from deaths and injuries.

 

Click here to download attached document.

 

 

 

Watch the DOT Revolving Door — Who Will Pay Ray LaHood, How Much, & For What?

July 2, 2013

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

Read this interview of Ray LaHood.

“Q: You need to make some money, right? People say you are the poorest member of the Cabinet. True?

A: Well, I am. We’ve put four of our kids through college. I’m going to take July and August, and hopefully the phone will ring and we’ll see who is on the other end. I would like to serve on a couple of boards. I am going to do some speaking and then maybe in the fall I’ll land somewhere. I don’t know. I am not retiring from life. I am retiring from DOT.”

Source:

Ray LaHood Q&A with the Tribune Chicago Tribune – by Jon Hilkevitch

But. Don’t cry for poor Ray LaHood. For just some of his prospects, see:

Ray LaHood’s post-Cabinet prospects

“There’s gold in the hills of transportation associations, and LaHood could make a pretty penny in the private sector.”

Cry for the more than 130,000 American crash victims that died in his 4 and one half years in office — more than the number of Americans who died in the Afghanistan, Iraq, and Viet Nam wars combined. And cry for the nearly 500,000 American crash victims seriously injured on his watch.