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1. SAMPLE LETTER TO SEND TO YOUR SENATOR.
[Address to The Honorable______, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510]
Dear Senator _____,
Recently, the White House nominated North Carolina trauma surgeon Jeffrey Runge to be the next Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
I am concerned about this nomination, because Dr. Runge has supported NHTSA’s “passive approach” to traffic safety and its emphasis on injury reduction over accident prevention. “Traffic crashes are predictable and preventable and therefore are not accidents,” Dr. Runge and other physicians wrote in September 1999. I would like to know how that belief squares with Congress, because, in TEA-21, the Congress made accident prevention NHTSA’s number one mission.
Despite TEA-21, injury reduction still dominates NHTSA. According to “Wrong Turn” -- the June 11 cover story in New Yorker Magazine -- the epidemiologists and their followers at NHTSA felt “that the best way to combat the epidemic on the highways was to shift attention from the driver to the vehicle. No other country pursued the passive strategy as vigorously, and no other country had such high expectations for its success. But America's slipping record on auto safety suggests that somewhere in the logic of that approach there was a mistake. And, if so, it necessarily changes the way we think about car crashes.” Isn’t the NHTSA-Ford-Firestone :”controversy” reason enough to begin to “change the way we think about car crashes?”
Like other motorcyclists, I am committed to safety on the road through accident prevention, such as more resources for state-run rider safety training and a national program of making motorists aware of motorcycles. Will Dr. Runge support or oppose accident prevention strategies – or will he keep attention focused away “from the driver to the vehicle?”
I urge you to read the important New Yorker Magazine article as you consider the Runge nomination. For more information, please contact me or call the Motorcycle Riders Foundation at (202) 546-0983.
Sincerely,
[Name and Address]
2. SAMPLE LETTER TO SEND TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN.
[Address to The Honorable______, U. S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515]
Dear Representative _____,
I appreciate the House Energy and Commerce Committee holding hearings June 19 into the NHTSA-Ford-Firestone controversy. This probe occurred at the same time the White House announcement of the appointment of Dr. Jeffrey Runge as the next Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
I am concerned that Dr. Runge will continue his support of NHTSA’s “passive approach” to traffic safety and its emphasis on injury reduction over accident prevention. “Traffic crashes are predictable and preventable and therefore are not accidents,” Dr. Runge and other physicians wrote in September 1999. I would like to know how that belief squares with Congress, because, in TEA-21, the Congress made accident prevention NHTSA’s number one mission.
According to “Wrong Turn” -- the June 11 cover story in New Yorker Magazine -- the epidemiologists and their followers at NHTSA felt “that the best way to combat the epidemic on the highways was to shift attention from the driver to the vehicle. No other country pursued the passive strategy as vigorously, and no other country had such high expectations for its success. But America's slipping record on auto safety suggests that somewhere in the logic of that approach there was a mistake. And, if so, it necessarily changes the way we think about car crashes.” Isn’t the NHTSA-Ford-Firestone “controversy” reason enough to begin to “change…the way we think about car crashes?”
As a motorcyclist, I urge you to read the important New Yorker Magazine article before the House Commerce Committee meets again later this Summer to continue its review of the NHTSA-Ford-Firestone issue. Perhaps you and the committee can help America begin to “change…the way we think about car crashes.”
For more information, please contact me or call the Motorcycle Riders Foundation at (202) 546-0983.
Sincerely,
[Name and Address]
3. SAMPLE LETTER TO SEND TO YOUR SENATOR.
[Address to The Honorable______, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510]
Dear Senator _____,
RE: North Carolina trauma surgeon Jeffrey Runge nomination to be NHTSA Administrator
I am concerned that Dr. Runge will continue the in-effective “passive approach” to traffic safety as opposed to “accident prevention” which was made the number one mission for NHTSA by Congress in TEA-21.
We need to quit hiring doctors to do a traffic safety engineers job! Problems like the Ford/Firestone controversy and the “deadly air-bag issue” beg for a new leadership at NHTSA. This won’t happen with ER doctors looking for new ways to minimize injuries after the crash has happened.
Please read “WRONG TURN” (June 11 cover story in New Yorker Magazine) for a clear explanation of why new leadership at NHTSA is needed. We need a change in direction at NHTSA to correct America's slipping record on auto safety.
Like other motorcyclists, I am committed to safety on the road through accident prevention, such as more resources for state-run rider safety training and a national program of making motorists aware of motorcycles. Will Dr. Runge support or oppose accident prevention strategies – or will he keep attention focused away “from the driver to the vehicle?”
For more information, please contact me or call the Motorcycle Riders Foundation at (202) 546-0983.
Sincerely,
[Name and Address]
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POSTCARD:
[Address to The Honorable______, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510]
Dear Senator _____,
Please oppose the nomination of Dr. Jeffrey Runge as the next Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Please read “WRONG TURN” (June 11 cover story in New Yorker Magazine) for a clear explanation of why we need a change in direction at NHTSA to correct America's slipping record on auto safety.
For more information, please contact me or call the Motorcycle Riders Foundation at (202) 546-0983.
Sincerely,
[Name and Address]
4. SAMPLE LETTER TO SEND TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN.
[Address to The Honorable______, U. S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515]
Dear Representative _____,
I appreciate the House Energy and Commerce Committee holding hearings June 19 into the NHTSA-Ford-Firestone controversy. This probe occurred at the same time as the White House announcement of the appointment of Dr. Jeffrey Runge as the next Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
I am concerned that Dr. Runge will continue the in-effective “passive approach” to traffic safety as opposed to “accident prevention” which was made the number one mission for NHTSA by Congress in TEA-21.
We need to quit hiring doctors to do a traffic safety engineers job! Problems like the Ford/Firestone controversy and the “deadly air-bag issue” beg for a new leadership at NHTSA. This won’t happen with ER doctors looking for new ways to minimize injuries after the crash has happened.
Please read “WRONG TURN” (June 11 cover story in New Yorker Magazine) for a clear explanation of why new leadership at NHTSA is needed. We need a change in direction at NHTSA to correct America's slipping record on auto safety.
Like other motorcyclists, I am committed to safety on the road through accident prevention, such as more resources for state-run rider safety training and a national program of making motorists aware of motorcycles. Will Dr. Runge support or oppose accident prevention strategies – or will he keep attention focused away “from the driver to the vehicle?”
For more information, please contact me or call the Motorcycle Riders Foundation at (202) 546-0983.
Sincerely,
[Name and Address]
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POSTCARD:
[Address to The Honorable______, U. S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515]
Dear Representative _____,
[Address to The Honorable______, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510]
Dear Senator _____,
Please oppose the nomination of Dr. Jeffrey Runge as the next Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Please read “WRONG TURN” (June 11 cover story in New Yorker Magazine) for a clear explanation of why we need a change in direction at NHTSA to correct America's slipping record on auto safety.
For more information, please contact me or call the Motorcycle Riders Foundation at (202) 546-0983.
Sincerely,
[Name and Address]
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