Turn Signals Save Lives www.SignalAmerica.org

Write your Congressperson - http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Ask them: "If the #1 Cause of Fatalities on American Roadways is Unintended Lane Change Crashes, at a cost of 23,000 Lives Annually or 60 Deaths a Day, then why isn't there any National Effort for Turn Signal Awareness and Enforcement?"
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SignalAmerica.org campaign mission is to increase Turn Signal enforcement and use nationwide.This campaign focuses on building public-private partnerships, enacting strong legislation, maintaining active, high-visibility law enforcement, and conducting effective public education.
WAKE UP AMERICAN DRIVERS Every State has a law that requires drivers to turn on their turn signal before changing lanes. If these laws are obeyed, the number of unintended lane change crashes and road run-offs would be greatly reduced.The NHTSA and the insurance industry have reported that unintended lane change crashes have been the direct cause of 23,000 annual fatalities on U.S. roadways. When drivers signal before making a lane change they give others on the road an extra split second of reaction time to adjust their driving. An extra split second is all that is needed to avoid the swerve that very frequently causes crashes and road run-offs. A person's life can either be saved or lost in just a split second.
My name is Heather Derusha, Living and surviving on American roadways, I watched the Birth of Road Rage as we call it today.In the beginning, it was mainly the Drunk Drivers that would jump in front of other drivers without any Turn Signal Notification, not allowing the affected driver enough space and making them slam on their brakes or swerve out of the way, which caused road run-offs, crashes, or roll-overs resulting in Injuries and Deaths. I have observed the whole system of signaling one's intent while driving a Lethal Weapon break down bit by bit. When drivers signal their intentions they supply everyone around them with that vital split second extra reaction time, that I know would drastically reduce the 43,000 annual traffic Fatalities(116 people Killed a day) and the daily 17,000 reported crashes on American roadways. It is no coincidence that studies report that the majority of Americans admit that they do not signal before making a Lane Change and the NUMBER ONE CAUSE of FATALITIES on our Roadways IS UNINTENDED LANE CHANGE CRASHES. The Crashes are not intended but most of the Lane Changes are. Drivers just look and go. Unfortunately there are too many drivers using this behavior at the same time on our over-crowded roads
"About Me" For many years I was a Top Level Celebrity Driver, and estimate I passed the 3-million-mile mark a while back. I drive about 500 miles a day on average, day-in and day-out, more than 100,000 miles a year times 33. Now I am the owner of a courier-delivery business in Atlanta and Tampa. This is how I qualify myself as something of an expert on motorists’ increasingly turning or changing lanes without signaling in advance. I figure that is the “real” cause of hundreds of thousands of crashes that safety experts and law enforcement investigators overlook, to the driving public’s peril.
Speeding may escalate a highway crash into a fatality,”. But what often causes the crash itself, is failing to signal,before moving right to left, And officers on traffic patrol rarely ticket anyone for failing to signal their intent,when changing lane's. I have talked to Police Officers who have told me that because of the low priority set for using turn signals by their department head's, that they are often discouraged from pulling someone over for not using their turn signals. I have great respect for Police Officers, but many I have talked to feel they have their hands tied on the subject.
Here's a picture of me in 1977 as a Chauffeur for “Roots” Author, Alex Haley and Mrs. Esther Edwards “Motown Founder Barry Gordy’s Sister”
Click here to see a diagram I created to illustrate crashes and road runoffs I have witnessed or view my Pics for the same image
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