I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7527 
To direct the United States Postal Service to issue regulations requiring 
Postal Service employees and contractors to report to the Postal Service 
traffic crashes involving vehicles carrying mail that result in injury or 
death, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 5, 2024 
Mr. CONNOLLY (for himself and Mr. COMER) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability 
A BILL 
To direct the United States Postal Service to issue regula-
tions requiring Postal Service employees and contractors 
to report to the Postal Service traffic crashes involving 
vehicles carrying mail that result in injury or death, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mail Traffic Deaths 
Reporting Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. REGULATIONS ON TRAFFIC CRASH DEATHS AND IN-
JURIES 
INVOLVING 
VEHICLES 
TRANS-
PORTING MAIL. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Postmaster General of 
the Postal Service shall issue regulations to require the 
collection, tracking, and public reporting of information 
related to deaths and injuries resulting from traffic crash-
es involving vehicles transporting mail. Such regulations 
shall establish appropriate mechanisms to monitor and en-
force compliance with the reporting requirements of this 
Act and may utilize existing reporting mechanisms in use 
at the time of enactment of this Act. 
(b) REPORTS ON CRASHES.— 
(1) EMPLOYEES.—Any employee of the Postal 
Service engaged in the transportation of mail shall 
report to the Postal Service any traffic crash involv-
ing the vehicle the employee was operating during 
such transportation that resulted in injury or death 
not later than three days after such crash. 
(2) CONTRACTORS.—Any contractor (of any 
tier) of the Postal Service engaged in the transpor-
tation of mail shall report to the Postal Service any 
traffic crash involving the vehicle the contractor was 
operating during such transportation that resulted 
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in injury or death not later than three days after 
such crash. 
(3) CONTENTS.—Any report submitted under 
paragraph (1) or (2) shall include detailed informa-
tion describing, at a minimum, the crash, including 
the date, time, location, nature of the crash, infor-
mation identifying the contractor, number of inju-
ries, fatalities, and any contributing factors to the 
crash. An employee or contractor (as the case may 
be) shall update the report, in such form and man-
ner as the Postal Service deems appropriate, to re-
flect any change in crash-caused injuries or fatali-
ties. 
(4) ACCOMMODATIONS IN EVENT OF INJURY.— 
The Postal Service shall provide for procedures 
under which reports may be submitted under this 
subsection under an alternative deadline in the event 
a Postal Service employee or contractor is unable to 
submit a report due to serious injury resulting from 
the applicable crash. 
(5) STANDARD
FORM.—The Postmaster Gen-
eral shall create a standard form available to Postal 
Service employees and contractors for the purposes 
of submitting reports under this subsection. 
(c) DATABASE.— 
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(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Postal Service shall 
maintain a continuously updated internal digital 
database that includes comprehensive information 
related to deaths and injuries from traffic crashes 
involving vehicles transporting mail. 
(2) CONTENTS.—The database shall include 
any information provided by Postal Service employ-
ees and contractors under subsection (b). 
(d) REPORT.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Postal Service shall 
make available to the public an annual report sum-
marizing information related to deaths and injuries 
from traffic crashes involving vehicles transporting 
mail. 
(2) CONTENTS.—The report shall include ag-
gregated statistics, trends, and analysis to enhance 
transparency and accountability. 
(3) PRIVACY.—Information in the report shall 
be made available to the public in a manner that 
does not personally identify any Postal Service em-
ployee, contractor, or any other individual. 
(e) PENALTIES.—Any Postal Service contractor who 
fails to report a traffic crash within the deadline pre-
scribed under subsection (b) shall be subject to appro-
priate penalties as determined appropriate by the Postal 
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Service, including fines, suspension of contracts, or termi-
nation of contracts. The Postal Service may take into ac-
count the severity of the applicable traffic crash and the 
frequency of noncompliance with the requirements of this 
Act by the applicable Postal Service contractor when de-
termining which penalty to apply (if any). 
(f) CRASH
DEFINED.—In this Act, the term 
‘‘crash’’— 
(1) means an occurrence involving a commercial 
motor vehicle operating on a highway in interstate 
or intrastate commerce which results in— 
(A) a fatality; 
(B) bodily injury to a person who, as a re-
sult of the injury, immediately receives medical 
treatment away from the scene of the accident; 
or 
(C) one or more motor vehicles incurring 
disabling damage as a result of the accident, re-
quiring at least one of the motor vehicle to be 
transported away from the scene by a tow truck 
or other motor vehicle; and 
(2) does not include— 
(A) an occurrence involving only boarding 
and alighting from a stationary motor vehicle; 
or 
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(B) an occurrence involving only the load-
ing or unloading of cargo. 
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