NTSB TO ASSESS STATE ACTIONS TO REDUCE HIGHWAY
AND BOATING DEATHS AT SEPTEMBER 14 MEETING

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The National Transportation Safety Board holds a
public Board meeting Tuesday, September 14, at 9:30 a.m., in
its Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L'Enfant Plaza,
S.W., Washington, D.C.

The meeting will focus on a discussion of the NTSB's
"Most Wanted List" of safety improvements - a series of
recommendations the Safety Board has issued to the States
over the past few years. The Board will evaluate how
responsive the States have been to its recommendations.

The recommendations that will be discussed at the
meeting, and the NTSB press contacts for each item, are:

--Require booster seats for young children (Paul
Schlamm).

--Increase the number of people who wear seat belts
through stronger enforcement laws (Ted Lopatkiewicz).

--Strengthen underage drinking and driving laws, enact
graduated driver licensing legislation, prohibit
nighttime driving by young novice drivers and restrict
the number of teen passengers traveling with young
novice drivers (Keith Holloway).

--Reduce "hard core drinking drivers" (Lauren Peduzzi).

--Require mandatory education of recreational boat
operators, use of life jackets by children and safety
instruction before renting a personal watercraft
(Keith Holloway).

The Board will also consider adding to its Most Wanted
List a recommendation dealing with safe operations of school
buses at railroad grade crossings (Lauren Peduzzi).

The Most Wanted List was established in 1990 as a way
for the Safety Board to focus attention on needed safety
improvements in all modes of transportation. The list
highlights recommendations that, if implemented, the Safety
Board believes will have a significant impact on reducing
deaths and injuries.

Directions to Board Room: Front door located on Lower
10th Street, directly below L'Enfant Plaza. From Metro,
exit L'Enfant Plaza station at 9th and D Streets escalator,
walk through shopping mall, at CVS store take escalator down
one level. Board room will be to your left.