National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act

rdf:langString National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act

rdf:langString Highway Safety Act of 1966,

rdf:langString United States

rdf:langString An Act to provide for a coordinated national safety program and establishment of safety standards for motor vehicles in interstate commerce to reduce accidents involving motor vehicles and to reduce the deaths and injuries occurring in such accidents.

rdf:langString National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act

rdf:langString Reduce deaths and injuries resulting from traffic accidents by establishing motor vehicle safety standards and safety research programs

rdf:langString Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson

rdf:langString The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was enacted in the United States in 1966 to empower the federal government to set and administer new safety standards for motor vehicles and road traffic safety. The Act was the first mandatory federal safety standards for motor vehicles. The Act created the National Highway Safety Bureau (now National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). The Act was one of a number of initiatives by the government in response to increasing number of cars and associated fatalities and injuries on the road following a period when the number of people killed on the road had increased 6-fold and the number of vehicles was up 11-fold since 1925. The reduction of the rate of death attributable to motor-vehicle crashes in the United States represents the successful public health response to a great technologic advance of the 20th century—the motorization of America.