Facing a surge in traffic fatalities, the Department of Transportation Thursday released a 42-page plan aimed at eliminating traffic fatalities in hopes of reversing an increasingly deadly trend.
Noting that it’s a “sad and universal truth” that nearly everyone knows someone who has died in a traffic accident, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, in a morning event at DOT headquarters, vowed to work to eliminate traffic deaths to create “a country where one day nobody has to say goodbye to a loved one because of a traffic crash.”
He was accompanied by Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
