We don’t often post Federal action alerts here, but this very boring-sounding Federal policy change could have big implications for understanding our nation’s traffic safety crisis. So it’s worth taking a moment to submit a comment.
Salud America sounded the alarm and created an action alert you can use to quickly submit a comment to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Comments are due today (May 3), so don’t wait.
The change is part of an update to the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria, and if you’ve never heard of such a thing you can join the club. But it is essentially a set of guidelines the Feds create to establish consistent data collection between states and local agencies. The MMUCC is not mandatory, but it establishes the standard. So if we want widespread improvements in the kinds of traffic crash data various agencies collect, this is the best way to do it. But at the very least, we need to make sure the data collection elements are not weakened.
You can read more about the issue in StreetsBlog USA. Below is the sample text from the Salud America comment form:
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