Officials are trying to prevent any more highway fatalities this year
by urging drivers to slow down, buckle up and not drive drunk
this holiday season.
With traffic fatalities in Vermont up this year, we look at the
leading causes of these fatalities and what can be done to reduce them, get analysis on Vermont’s
gubernatorial race and listen back to this week’s news.
The
Vermont House will soon debate a highway safety bill that would
go well beyond a ban on texting while driving. But Governor
Jim Douglas says the House should drop some of the provisions of the bill.