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

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1186

  Expressing support for designation of April as National Distracted 
                        Driving Awareness Month.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 2010

 Ms. Markey of Colorado submitted the following resolution; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing support for designation of April as National Distracted 
                        Driving Awareness Month.

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.
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