[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 615 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 615

       Designating November 26, 2006, as ``Drive Safer Sunday''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 16, 2006

  Mr. Chambliss (for himself and Mr. Isakson) submitted the following 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION



       Designating November 26, 2006, as ``Drive Safer Sunday''.

Whereas motor vehicle travel is the primary means of transportation in the 
        United States;
Whereas everyone on the roads and highways needs to drive more safely to reduce 
        deaths and injuries resulting from motor vehicle accidents;
Whereas the death of almost 43,000 people a year in more than 6 million highway 
        crashes in the United States has been called an epidemic by 
        Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta;
Whereas according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, 
        wearing a seat belt saved 15,434 lives in 2004 and 15,632 lives in 2005; 
        and
Whereas the Sunday after Thanksgiving is the busiest highway traffic day of the 
        year: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) encourages--
                    (A) high schools, colleges, universities, 
                administrators, teachers, primary schools, and 
                secondary schools to launch campus-wide educational 
                campaigns to urge students to be careful about safety 
                when driving;
                    (B) national trucking firms to alert their drivers 
                to be especially focused on driving safely during the 
                heaviest traffic day of the year, and to publicize the 
                importance of the day using Citizen's band (CB) radios 
                and in truck stops across the Nation;
                    (C) clergy to remind their members to travel safely 
                when attending services and gatherings;
                    (D) law enforcement personnel to remind drivers and 
                passengers to drive particularly safely on the Sunday 
                after Thanksgiving; and
                    (E) everyone to use the Sunday after Thanksgiving 
                as an opportunity to educate themselves about highway 
                safety; and
            (2) designates November 26, 2006, as ``Drive Safer 
        Sunday''.
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