Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety released the 2012 Roadmap to State Highway Safety Laws, the ninth annual report grading all 50 states and Washington, D.C., on adoption of 15 basic traffic safety laws.

States were given one of three ratings based on how many of the 15 optimal laws they have: Green (good), Yellow (caution, state needs improvement) and red (danger, state falls behind). Rating placement was based solely on whether a state had adopted a law as defined in the report and not on any evaluation of a state's highway safety education or enforcement programs.

Among the 15 model laws Advocates evaluated in its 2012 report (available at saferoads.org) are seat belt, booster seat and motorcycle helmet measures, in addition to restrictions and requirements for teen drivers, all-driver texting bans and tougher impaired driving laws.

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