[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1186 Engrossed in House (EH)]

H. Res. 1186

                In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

                                                        March 23, 2010.
Whereas 9-year-old Erica Forney of Fort Collins, Colorado, was struck and killed 
        by a distracted driver in 2008;
Whereas there were more than 276,000,000 wireless cell phone subscribers in the 
        United States as of June 2009, an increase of 42 percent from 
        194,000,000 in June 2005, and nearly 3 times more than the 97,000,000 
        wireless subscribers in June 2000;
Whereas over 600,000,000,000 text messages were sent in 2008, nearly 4 times the 
        number sent in 2006;
Whereas according to the recent National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey, 
        80 percent of all traffic incidents and 65 percent of all near-crashes 
        involve some type of distraction;
Whereas according to data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 
        driver distraction was reported to have been involved in 16 percent of 
        all fatal crashes in 2008, which is an increase from 12 percent in 2004;
Whereas the Secretary of Transportation held a Distracted Driving Summit in 
        September 2009; and
Whereas April would be an appropriate month to designate as National Distracted 
        Driving Awareness Month: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) supports the designation of Distracted Driving Awareness Month;
            (2) encourages all people in the United States to consider the lives 
        of others on the road and avoid distracted driving; and
            (3) respectfully requests the Clerk of the House to transmit a copy 
        of this resolution to FocusDriven, an advocacy group for victims of 
        motor vehicle crashes involving drivers using cell phones.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.