Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
On this July 4th weekend, watch this brief video and read the evaluation of Trump’s “patriotism”. Seehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/how-unpatriotic-is-donald_b_10775828.html
Lou
Lou
Dear Care For Crash Victims Community Members:
Automotive News reports:
“WASHINGTON — President Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal 2016 would nearly triple funding for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration division that investigates vehicle safety defects, boosting a budget that had flat-lined for roughly a decade.
The White House proposed allocating $31.3 million to NHTSA’s Office of Defect Investigation, up from around $11 million for the current fiscal year.” Seehttp://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20150202/OEM11/150209979/obama-budget-nearly-triples-funding-for-nhtsa-defect-office
Note: * DOT values a statistical life at $9.4 million in 2015. See https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/VSL2015_0.pdf
* NHTSA estimated that crashes resulted in $871 Billion in societal harm in 2010. See https://www.careforcrashvictims.com/assets/812013.pdf
Lou
Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
The Clinton and Kaine Campaign The Clinton – Kaine bus tour is currently going through the swing States of PA and OH. These States are suffering from a loss of jobs in manufacturing including steel and autos caused, in part, by failed safety policies for decades. If we had a national Vision Zero Goal, it could stimulate the use of specialty high strength steels and boost the economy by improving the demand for, and supply of, safer vehicles here in the U.S.A.
We need governmental plans and policies that address the clear and present dangers we have in the U.S.A. today.
~10,000 Deaths. Current rate about 100 deaths per day.~ 40,000 Serious Injuries. Serious injuries include Brain (TBIs, Spinal Cord (quadriplegia and paraplegia), amputations and burns at a current rate of about 400 per day.~ $200 Billion in losses. Current rate about $2 Billion in losses per day.Next 4 YearsOver the next 4 years Vehicle Violence, in the U.S.A. alone, can be expected at current rates to result in:
See NHTSA Fatality Data: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812240
Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Mr. James R. Hood, founder of ConsumerAffairs.com has kindly noted this need for greater national political attention to the life or death issue of vehicle violence.
Based on his long professional experience, he is realistically aware of the inequality between the problems for consumers of the nearly 100 vehicle deaths, 400 serious injuries, and $2 billion in losses each day in the U.S.A. today and the deadly silence of the political parties. He wrote:
As a High School freshman I learned that Consumer Reports had the best articles on automobiles with ratings based on independent testing – and not biased by advertisers. I have subscribed for many decades. The information Consumer Reports provides readers saves them time, money, aggravation and may even save their lives.
The August 2016 issue of Consumer Reports reaches a high point in covering important subjects to consumers. See http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm?loginMethod=autoThis issue has an excellent article on seat belt safety. See http://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/fastening-seat-belts-3-seconds-that-save-lives/
Lou
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