STOP Frontovers Act of 2026

This bill directs the Secretary of Transportation to start a rulemaking within 1 year to create a federal vehicle safety standard aimed at reducing deaths and injuries from "frontovers" and other low-speed incidents, where a vehicle moving forward strikes someone the driver cannot see. The standard must set a direct visibility requirement and require vehicles to detect people, children, bicyclists, wheelchair users, other vehicles, and animals in blind zones, warn the driver, and include a system that can act on its own to prevent or lessen a crash. The final standard must be issued within 1 year after the rulemaking starts, with full compliance required within 2 years after that, and the Secretary must report to Congress every 90 days if the rule is late. The bill also requires the federal government to track frontover and backover incidents in its non-traffic crash data system within 30 days.

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Sponsors

• Richard Blumenthal Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors