19 Alerts From the IIHS Tag

“These Cameras Are Not a Safety Tool . . .”: NMA E-Newsletter #556

September 8, 2019 • Automated Traffic Enforcement, DISTRACTED DRIVING, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, IIHS, ITE, NEWSLETTER, PRIVACY, RED LIGHT CAMERA, REVENUE GENERATION, RIGHT-TURN-ON-RED, SAFETY, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Safety, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety took a page out of its own book, and that of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), by issuing a recent report on red-light running with a title designed to send the media into a frenzy. “Red Light Running Deaths Hit 10 Year High” did exactly that. While […]

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A Forum About Modifying Speed Limits and Driver Behavior: NMA E-Newsletter #537

April 28, 2019 • 85TH PERCENTILE, Automated Traffic Enforcement, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FHWA, GHSA, IIHS, NEWSLETTER, NMA, SPEED CAMERA, SPEED LIMIT, TICKET QUOTA, Traffic Tickets

The April 15-16, 2019 conference in Ruckersville, Virginia was billed as a “national forum [seeking] to address the neglected problem of speeding.” The sponsoring organizations, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), are leading proponents of lowering speed limits with the goal of reducing highway fatalities to near […]

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The IIHS: When a New Study is Not New and Not a Study—NMA E-Newsletter #535

April 14, 2019 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FARS, IIHS, INSURANCE, Insurance Company, NEWSLETTER, NHTSA, NMSL, SPEED LIMIT, Traffic Tickets

By Gary Biller, NMA President  Every two or three years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) splashes the media with a recycled report of how many deaths have occurred due to raised speed limits. And reporters dutifully echo it as gospel because sensational headlines like, “Speed limit increases are tied to 37,000 deaths over […]

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Boston’s “Vision Zero” Exposed: Lowering the speed limit increases speeding ticket revenue by 47%: NMA E-Newsletter #506

September 23, 2018 • 85TH PERCENTILE, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, Facial Recognition, IIHS, Insurance Company, MASSACHUSETTS, NEWSLETTER, NHTSA, NMA, NMA Foundation, REVENUE GENERATION, RHODE ISLAND, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, TICKET REVENUE, VISION ZERO

From guest writer Joe Cadillic of the MassPrivatel Blog All across the country, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is hard at work convincing cities to lower their speed limits to 25 MPH. The national effort to lower speed limits in cities is a fundamental tenet of a movement known as “Vision Zero.” To date, the National Highway […]

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History Repeating Itself: NMA E-Newsletter #381

May 1, 2016 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, IIHS, INSURANCE, NEWSLETTER, NMSL, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT

By Gary Biller, NMA President My indoctrination to NMA affairs was immediate when I joined the organization in July 2009.  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, that bastion of the auto insurance industry, had just released a report titled, Long Term Effects of Repealing the National Maximum Speed Limit (NMSL) in the United States.  The […]

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