NPTC Safety Article- February 2023 -Safety-Strategy

Last month, the Department of Transportation released the National Roadway Safety Strategy, a comprehensive approach to significantly reduce serious injuries and deaths on the nation’s highways. The strategy works by building and reinforcing multiple layers of protection, both to prevent crashes from happening in the first place and to minimize the harm caused to those involved when crashes do occur.

This is a departure from the conventional safety approach because it focuses on both human mistakes and vulnerability —then designs a system with many redundancies in place to protect everyone.

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