Statement on Illinois “Stop Super Speeders” Legislation Advancing in Senate Transportation Committee
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Amy Cohen,
Families for Safe Streets
Phone: (646)-581-4232
Email: press@familiesforsafestreets.org
ILLINOIS — Last night, Illinois’ Stop Super Speeders legislation, HB 4948, passed the Senate Transportation Committee unanimously (18-0) after previously passing the full Illinois House with a 77-24 vote. The bill would require repeat reckless speeders to install Intelligent Speed Assistance technology that prevents vehicles from exceeding the speed limit, targeting the small number of drivers responsible for a disproportionate share of deadly crashes and creating a proven pathway to prevent future loss of life.
Statement from Amy Cohen, Founder and President of Families for Safe Streets, whose 12-year-old son was killed by a speeding driver:
“Today’s unanimous vote is a powerful acknowledgment that Illinois can no longer accept preventable roadway deaths as inevitable. For too long, families like mine have been forced to live with the consequences of a system that has failed to stop repeat dangerous drivers. HB 4948 begins to change that.
This is a focused, life-saving intervention aimed at the most dangerous drivers on our roads: the repeat speeders who continue to put every family at risk. Intelligent Speed Assistance is a proven tool that prevents the behavior itself, not just the aftermath, while still allowing people to drive for work, school, and daily life.
We are deeply grateful to the lawmakers, advocates, crash survivors, and families who have carried this bill forward with urgency and moral clarity. Illinois now has an opportunity to lead the nation in saying clearly: preventable speeding deaths must stop.”
Statement from Rudy Faust, Illinois crash survivor and advocate:
“I survived a crash that changed my life, and I carry that reality every day. No one should have to learn through tragedy what we already know how to prevent. This bill is about stopping the behavior that destroys families before it ever happens.
I’m so grateful to our bill sponsors, Senator Morrison (D-29), Senator Stadelman (D-34), and Representative Deuter (D-45), and proud to see Illinois take a step toward real accountability and real safety, because every single preventable crash we stop is another family spared this pain.”
**Crash victims and survivors from Illinois are available for interviews.**
About Families for Safe Streets
Families for Safe Streets is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending traffic violence by supporting victims’ families, educating communities, and advocating for safe streets policies that save lives.
Learn more at https://www.familiesforsafestreets.org/stop-super-speeders###
