Bill Would Finally Ding Automakers' Safety Ratings on Huge Cars That Kill Pedestrians - Streetsblog USA

"The Pedestrian Protection Act would, for the first time, require the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to develop meaningful vehicle safety standards that consider how likely pedestrians and cyclists are to survive crashes."

"The average U.S. vehicle, meanwhile, has gotten eight inches taller over the past three decades, which experts say has helped accelerate a pedestrian death crisis that claimed 7,400 lives on U.S. roads in 2021 alone."

"Scanlon's bill would also require NHTSA to give consumers some of that critical pedestrian safety information right on the dealership's windshield safety ratings sticker, rather than burying it on a government website."

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