Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Advocates' State Program Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety is a nonprofit alliance of consumer, health, law enforcement and safety groups and insurance companies dedicated to the improvement of highway and auto safety on our nation's roads. Advocates has built a substantial record of success at the state level. A significant number of lives have been saved and injuries prevented due to the laws that have been passed and strengthened through legislative strategies and grassroots coalition efforts that Advocates has developed. Partnering with organizations, crash survivors and community leaders has been crucial to achieving these results.
Advocates also trains and works with youth advocates to advance legislation.
In 1998 - 1999, high school students from Philadelphia successfully lobbied in support of a new graduated driver licensing law for Pennsylvania. Last year these young people and a group of Atlanta middle school students lobbied in support of statewide red light camera legislation in their respective states. In Ohio, youth from Cleveland urged legislators to pass the standard enforcement safety belt bill. To see which highway safety laws still need to be passed in your state, check out Advocates' State Law chart . To check out if your state allows red light running cameras to be used in your state, go to our National Organization for Traffic and Intersection Safety chart .