Premise: The senior executive reported in his self-assessment for fiscal year 2001 that many states in the region have experienced a reduction in the number of highway fatalities since the Southern Executive Safety Summit, which is helping FHWA meet its goal of reducing the number of highway-related fatalities by 20 percent in 10 years.

Hypothesis: Many states have had a reduction in road kills since the SESS.
Relation: entailment