A Moment in Time: President Harry S. Truman’s Highway Safety Crusade

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• Creators:
  Weingroff, Richard F.
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Highway safety
  • Fatalities
  • Transportation policy
• Series:
  FHWA Highway History Website Articles
• Resource Type:
  Web Document
• Right Statement:
  Public Domain
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  President Harry S. Truman was an avid motorist his whole life. As President (April 1945-January 1953), he remained concerned about the growing traffic safety problem – and with good reason. Fatalities had reached 38,142 in 1941. Any number would be too high, but President Truman took a moment in time, as traffic volumes were returning to peacetime levels, to launch a crusade to save lives.
• Content Notes:
  The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s) located under https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm. The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75088/dot_75088_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.29 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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