Advocates has saved many thousands of lives, diminished the number of injuries and saved tens of billions of dollars in prevented costs that flowed from bloodshed on the highways.
Now Advocates is pressing, with limited success, for an adequate National Highway Traffic Safety Administration budget, beyond the current meager one percent of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s annual budget, even though 95 percent of transportation-related fatalities involve motor vehicles.In 2020 the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation issued a 30-year report on the impact of Advocates with their driving forces – Joan Claybrook, Jackie Gillan and Judith Stone.
With all this, it is puzzling that the insurance industry does not publicize widely such achievements. It is also puzzling why alert insurance companies like Geico and Progressive have not yet become participant donors. For nearly 35 years, a small nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. has been having an outsized impact on highway and auto safety. It isand it is funded by a dozen or more property-casualty insurance companies; with a board composed of consumer leaders and insurance company representatives.
As the decades rolled by, the industry prospered, making profits year in and year out. So much so that its reserves bulged and investment of these monies began to overshadow net premium income.
Lobbying Congress, Advocates helped pass mandates for NHTSA standards, including stronger head impact padding, side airbags and the clear life-saver called “Electronic Stability Control” , along with tire pressure monitoring and crashworthiness standards for passenger-carrying motor coaches.
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