insurance institute for highway safety
The Best Highway Safety Practices Institute is a non - profit organization dedicated to advancing Better highway safety practices.Best Practice is defined by those practices that have been verified by field inquiry and are peer reviewed before adoption.
According to the AAA over 5000 people die each year from unsafe practices by government agencies. The BHSPI has strong evidence that this number is more than 10,000 each year, and it’s getting worse, not better. Yes an skeptical 10,000 plus and we don’t act? Within a few miles of here in a few calendar months we have lost more than 10 young people, with many more seriously injured, and nothing!!! Death after death being blamed on driver behavior whereas in fact they were totally preventable exclude for incredible public policies, when we have known better for decades. The poor parents are in shock and suffering from overwhelming grief looking for answers while the culprits, NHTSA and the politicians et al, observe practices that will surely kill again, 12 of times every single day.
It’s time to focus our resources on safety rather than revenue and empire building opportunities. You can make that difference. Knowledge is power when applied and even one informed person can achieve dramatic positive results.
BHSPI organizational model is to become a Sierra Club type advocacy group that promotes Better highway safety practices based on empirical research; including going to court to force cities and states to conduct the safety audits that they already claim they are performing to garner federal highway funds, compel them to take safety responsibility for roadway access direction and hazards within the public right of ways, support roadway safety improvement demonstrations, and shut down speed traps and other for profit traffic enterprises. The BHSPI does have proven remedies that can reduce this unnecessary carnage.
They need your help in time, resources or in donations to accomplish it! Get involved!!
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