Capito, Warnock Pass Bipartisan “Drive Safer Sunday” Resolution Ahead of Record Travel Expected Over Thanksgiving Holiday

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last week, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) passed the bipartisan Drive Safer Sunday Resolution. The legislation encourages Americans to exercise greater caution in their holiday travels during a period of historically increased traffic incidents and fatalities. The resolution also designates the Sunday after Thanksgiving as "Drive Safer Sunday."

"The Sunday after Thanksgiving is one of the busiest-if not the busiest-travel day in our country," Senator Capito said. "Our resolution encourages everyone that will be on our roads to drive carefully because safety is and will always be my top transportation priority."

"The Thanksgiving holiday should be a time celebrated with those closest to you, and this resolution supports and uplifts driving safety around the holiday so that families can safely be together," Senator Reverend Warnock said. "Community safety on our streets is a group effort, which is why I urge Georgians and all Americans to exercise an increased effort for safe travel amid the busy holiday season."

"We appreciate Senators Warnock and Capito for their bipartisan resolution that recognizes the Sunday after Thanksgiving as Drive Safer Sunday to promote road safety, especially this holiday weekend - which is one of the busiest travel periods of the year," Susan and Steve Owings, Co-Founders of Road Safe America and Board Members for the Institute for Safer Trucking, said. "Our son, Cullum, was killed as he and his brother were returning to college on December 1, 2002, the Sunday after that Thanksgiving, in a crash that would have been avoided if safety technology available today, like automatic emergency braking, had been on the big-rig that hit them. We hope that Drive Safer Sunday will encourage today's motorists to be particularly careful and alert to traffic dangers and that their focus will continue throughout the holidays and beyond."

Full text of the resolution text can be found here.

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