Efforts To Understand the Nation’s Drugged Driving Problem Stall Under Trump
Federal officials have not built a nationwide drug-impaired driving database, leaving missing crash data and slowing science-based safety metrics, researchers said.
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Efforts To Understand the Nation’s Drugged Driving Problem Stall Under Trump
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Two state transportation workers were replacing a sign on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 6 in western Colorado one morning when a Jeep Grand Cherokee swerved off the road and struck them. The workers, Nathan Jones and Trent Umberger, died in the September 2024 crash, as did a passenger in the Jeep. Tests found that the driver, Patrick Sneddon, then 59, had oxycodone and six times Colorado’s presumed impairment threshold for…
Traffic safety researchers have been demanding better figures on drugs at the wheel for years, but missing tests and inconsistent rules slow down the evaluation. An analysis.
Efforts To Understand the Nation’s Drugged Driving Problem Stall Under Trump - Health Care Today
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Two state transportation workers were replacing a sign on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 6 in western Colorado one morning when a Jeep Grand Cherokee swerved off the road and struck them. The workers, Nathan Jones and Trent Umberger, died in the September 2024 crash, as did a passenger in the Jeep. Tests found that the driver, Patrick Sneddon, then 59, had oxycodone and six times Colorado’s presumed impairment threshold for…
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