Drivers Strongly Support New Traffic Safety Policies
American drivers strongly support proposed safety measures to reduce automobile crashes and fatalities, and are themselves taking steps to make the roads safer, according to new polling from NORC at the University of Chicago. The full results of the survey are in the report, Underutilized Strategies in Traffic Safety: Results of a Nationally Representative Survey.
The survey of more than 2,000 drivers found that 65 percent of drivers say they would support using more sobriety checkpoints to discourage impaired driving. Such policies have been adopted in a dozen states. Additionally, more than 60 percent of respondents said they were in favor of using speed cameras and red-light cameras in their community to discourage reckless driving.