[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 22252]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           DRIVE SAFER SUNDAY

  The resolution (S. Res. 618) designating November 26, 2006, as 
``Drive Safer Sunday'' was considered and agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution (S. Res. 618), with its preamble, reads as follows:

                              S. Res. 618

       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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