Whereas roadway fatalities kill tens of thousands of people in the United States each year; Whereas, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (referred to in this preamble as NHTSA ), 42,939 lives were lost in motor vehicle crashes in 2021 and all of the deaths were preventable; Whereas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, traffic crashes are a leading cause of death for people ages 1 to 54 and kill more than 100 people every day; Whereas, according to NHTSA, alcohol-impaired driving crashes are a leading killer on the roadways of the United States, with 13,384 lives lost to alcohol-impaired driving in 2021; Whereas, according to NHTSA, 3,522 people died in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers in 2021; Whereas, according to NHTSA, 7,388 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States in 2021, representing a 22 percent increase in the last 5 years; Whereas, according to NHTSA, the number of pedestrian fatalities increased by 53 percent from 2012 to 2021; Whereas, according to the National Complete Streets Coalition at Smart Growth America, the pedestrian fatality rate compared to that of White, non-Hispanic people in the United States is— (1) 220 percent higher for American Indian and Alaska Native people; (2) 100 percent higher for Black people; and (3) 20 percent higher for Hispanic and Latinx people; Whereas, according to NHTSA, a total of 961 bicyclists were killed in crashes with motor vehicles in 2021, representing a 32 percent increase in the last 10 years; Whereas independent research in 2015 found that motor vehicle crash death rates were as much as 4.3 times greater for those at the bottom of the education spectrum than those at the top; Whereas, according to NHTSA, motorcycles represented only 3 percent of all registered vehicles, but accounted for 14 percent of all traffic fatalities and 17 percent of all occupant fatalities in 2021