Please sign the STOP Underrides! Bill petition: 

Congress, Act Now To End Deadly Truck Underride!

Your signature will generate an email telling your legislators to co-sponsor this life-saving legislation: Be sure to add a Comment which will be included in that email.

Hundreds of people die every year when pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, and passenger vehicles go underneath trucks. Over 4,000 have died during the past 19 years since the last underride regulation was issued in 1998. Families of victims and safety advocates are calling for an end to preventable truck underride tragedies.

It can happen to anyone — even if their car has a 5-Star Crash Rating. It can happen anywhere. It happened to 17-year-old AnnaLeah and 13-year-old Mary Karth when their car went under the rear of a semi-trailer in Georgia on May 4, 2013. And it happened to 26-year-old Roya Sadigh when her car went under the side of a truck in Indiana on November 24, 2004.

U.S. regulators have debated for decades about how to stop the tragedy of underride deaths — including, since 1969, the possibility of requiring underride protection to be added to the sides of large trucks. But they have not done so, even though engineers have already found ways to solve this problem.

It’s time for Congress to mandate that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration update underride regulations, and for the trucking industry to install effective underride protection. The STOP Underrides! Bill — introduced by Senator Gillibrand (D-NY), Senator Rubio (R-FL), and Congressman Cohen (D-TN) on December 12th will allow creative engineers to put effective underride protections on every truck, and help end preventable underride tragedies.

 

Together we can make the roads safer.

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