PCI Urges Connecticut Lawmakers to Strengthen Laws on Distracted Driving Repeat Offenders
HARTFORD, Conn. – The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) strongly supports measures, such as H.B. 5301, to address the growing problem of distracted driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that traffic fatalities for the first nine months of 2016 increased about 8 percent as compared to the same time period in 2015. However, traffic fatalities in NHTSA’s Region 1 which includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont were estimated to have increased 20 percent in 2016. Nationally, roadway