Traffic Safety Quotes

Years ago, people didn't wear seatbelts. Now, most people wouldn't get in a car without putting a seatbelt on.

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

If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet.

Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving.

You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.

New York became the first state to ban talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. First-time violators could receive a fine of $100, with an additional mandatory six-month jail sentence if your ringer plays a Latin-themed novelty song.

I've never had a car. Like I can drive, but I'm always at the risk of killing people.

One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.

Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.

Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make them harder to crash.

Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.

The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.

You can go to any city in America and see roads and bridges that need to be fixed…. I would not call them unsafe … they are dangerous…. The best highway system in the world is falling apart.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

An increase in bicycle ridership brings an increased need for measures to ensure the safety of cyclists.

People have to be more careful in traffic. It's hard to ride bikes in Curitiba.

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

Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them.

There's obviously a big difference between driving on the freeway in the desert, where there are no children playing or running over the road, than deploying it in a neighborhood.

Slow down and stay alive.

I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that.

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

I never exceed the posted speed limit.

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

Since becoming Mayor, I have advocated for safer streets.