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

Weingroff, Richard F.; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration

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

2020-06-26
By Weingroff, Richard F.
Series: FHWA Highway History Website Articles

English

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Weingroff, Richard F.
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
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Fatalities Highway Safety Transportation Policy
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Web Document
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Public Domain
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United States
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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.
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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.
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