{"id":68,"date":"2016-10-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/federal-government-sets-big-traffic-safety-goal\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:29:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:29:54","slug":"federal-government-sets-big-traffic-safety-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/federal-government-sets-big-traffic-safety-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government sets big traffic safety goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a variety of things the states and the federal government do to try to keep the nation\u2019s roads safe. One is to issue various regulations aimed at crash prevention. Another is to issue traffic safety goals, and to initiate campaigns directed toward the achievement of such goals. Recently, the federal government set a goal that is quite large and ambitious.<\/p>\n<p>This goal is to bring traffic deaths down to zero in the next 30 years. This joint goal of the U.S. Department of Transportation and the safety advocacy group the National Safety Council was announced last week.<\/p>\n<p>There would be quite a long ways to go for this goal to be achieved. Traffic deaths are currently very far away from zero. In 2015, there were over 35,000 fatalities out on America\u2019s roads. And recently, motor vehicle accident deaths have been trending up, not down.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/federal-government-sets-big-traffic-safety-goal\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Federal government sets big traffic safety goal\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a variety of things the states and the federal government do to try to keep the nation\u2019s roads safe. One is to issue various regulations aimed at crash prevention. Another is to issue traffic safety goals, and to initiate campaigns directed toward the achievement of such goals. 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