The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) recently released the 2012 edition of the Survey of the States: Speeding and Aggressive Driving. The report is based on a survey to which all 50 states and Guam contributed; the report emphasizes, not surprisingly, that about one-third of crash fatalities on U.S. highways over the past 25 years have been speed related.1 Between 1985 and 2010, seat belt nonuse by drivers in fatal crashes decreased dramatically from 64 percent to 27.4 percent, and alcohol-impaired drivers in fatal crashes declined from 41 percent to 31 percent. However, speed-related fatalities dropped only from 35 percent to 31 percent.2
