PHOENIX — Various legal overhauls are needed to make Arizona’s highways safer, according to a new report from the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety.
The organization’s president, Cathy Chase, said there’s a lot Arizona can do to reduce traffic collisions and fatalities — especially when it comes to children.
“In terms of what the laws are lacking in Arizona, there could be improvements to child passenger safety laws and to teen graduated driver licensing laws,” Chase told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Arizona’s Morning News on Thursday. “Those laws allow teen drivers to get experience under their belts in less dangerous driving conditions before they’re given a driver’s license.”
The recent report included a list of proposed public safety laws — or existing laws that can be expanded to keep drivers and pedestrians safer.
“The laws that we include in our report are the optimal laws, so while Arizona may have some provisions in place, we’d like to see them improved,” Chase said.
What solutions can address the issue of pervasive Arizona car crashes?
The report found various highway laws needed in Arizona, including:
Minimum ages for getting a learner’s permit and license
Requiring children aged 12 and under to sit in the backseat
Mandating children sit facing the rear up to the age of 2
“Teens’ brains are not fully formed so we need these laws to keep teenagers and everyone else on the road with them alive,” Chase said.
Other highway laws the report said it would like to see added or expanded include primary enforcement front and rear seat belt laws, all-rider mot …
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