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Over 40,000 people lose their lives on our nation’s streets, roadways, and highways each and every year. Secretary Pete Buttigieg has called these roadway deaths a crisis. In response, USDOT launched the National Roadway Safety Strategy (NRSS) in January 2021, which outlines a...
The 2024 National Roadway Safety Strategy Progress Report provides a concise update on USDOT’s efforts to address serious and fatal injuries on our roadways, details our accomplishments related to addressing the NRSS actions in 2023, and identifies USDOT’s new commitments to actions under the...
The National Roadway Safety Strategy (NRSS) was first released in January 2022. USDOT issued annual progress reports in 2023, 2024, and 2025, which are featured below alongside NRSS media features.
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Fully implementing the National Roadway Safety Strategy (NRSS) will require action from organizations in the private and public sectors, advocacy and community groups, researchers, and beyond.
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We are committed to reducing traffic fatalities and serious injuries on our roadways. The NRSS articulates new priority actions that target our most significant and urgent problems and are, therefore, expected to have the most substantial impact. It also focuses on notable changes to existing practices and approaches.
The United States Department of Transportation National Roadway Safety Strategy (NRSS) outlines the Department’s comprehensive approach to significantly reducing serious injuries and deaths on our Nation’s highways, roads, and streets.
This is the first step in working toward an...