Highway Safety Quotes

We lose 30,000 lives on our highways every year. We can certainly do better.

The march is not conducive to the orderly flow of traffic and commerce within and through the state of Alabama. The additional hazard placed on highway travel by any such actions cannot be countenanced. Such a march cannot and will not be tolerated.

Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users.

When you think of driverless cars, there's a huge potential for these cars to save lives by preventing accidents and by reducing congestion on highways.

I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

The way I've gotten things done is by working with Democrats and Republicans. I worked with Jay Rockefeller, for example, on highway safety issues.

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.

Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.

I finally came to Washington. That's when something happened. The Motor Vehicle Act of 1966, even though it was irregularly enforced - sometimes very little under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - it saved over 200,000 lives, millions of injuries prevented or reduced in severity.

The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.

The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.

I encourage the residents of Houston County to let their elected representatives know that closing the Dothan Trooper Post is unacceptable.

I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.

Pennsylvania is one of the worst states in country when it comes to the condition of its infrastructure, and Philadelphia isn't any better off than Pittsburgh. Nine million people a day travel over 900 bridges classified as structurally deficient, some of them on a heavily traveled section of I-95.

My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.

The M6 is terrible and there are always accidents when there is a big highway with lots of traffic.

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.

His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.

The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.