NC traffic safety experts call for tougher laws on speeding, impaired or distracted driving

By: Trevon Spencer

Outlets: North Carolina Newsline

Published: September 30, 2026

Words: 553

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 4 days ago

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In a crowded hotel conference room in Raleigh Tuesday, traffic safety researchers, industry experts and state government officials attended the final summit hosted by the North Carolina Alliance for Safe Transportation.

On the agenda: how to improve North Carolina’s distracted driving, speeding and impaired driving laws to reduce traffic fatalities.

“I read every day about the number of crashes we have in North Carolina, because there’s a story behind each of those stats,” said Mark …

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