Preventing Roadside and Work Zone Deaths Act of 2026

This bill would add occupants of disabled vehicles, and people on foot near them, to the groups covered by the federal Highway Safety Improvement Program. It would require injury health data efforts to include roadside deaths and work zone deaths, and expand a review of move-over or slow-down law awareness to cover motorists, disabled vehicles, and workers and machinery in work zones. The Secretary of Transportation would have to form two working groups, one on disabled vehicle crashes and one on work zone crashes, to collect and publish crash data and develop strategic plans. The Federal Highway Administration would have to send Congress a yearly report on how states use work zone safety contingency funds.

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Sponsors

• Richard Blumenthal Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors