EXHIBIT 42

Department of Defense: InVENTORY OF Traffic Safety ACTIVITIES_

1. Primary Concern or Responsibility for Traffic Safety. The Department is concerned with the safety of Defense military and civilian personnel who operate Government-owned motor vehicles and private vehicles in the conduct of official Government business. It is also concerned with the safety of military and civilian personnel of the Depart ment who operate their own vehicles while off-duty or off the job. Similarly, the Department is concerned with the safety of the public with whom the millions of Defense military and civilian personnel come in contact while using public streets and highways.

The Department of Defense is concerned with integrating the highway needs of the national defense into the civil highway program of the various state and federal agencies, maintaining an efficient relationship between the design of military vehicles and the standards for design and use of public highways, and cooperating with state and federal agencies in matters pertaining to utilization of public highways and in planning the development and construction of such highways.

2. Authority.

a.

Public Law 357

81st Congress, the "Federal Employees Compensation Act Amendments of 1949" authorizes and directs the heads of agencies to develop and support organized safety promotion.

b. Public Law 766 - 83rd Congress authorizes the United States 05 Civil Service Commission to regulate operators of Government-owned motor vehicles and requires the head of each executive agency to issue such orders and directives as may be necessary to comply with such regulations.

c. Department of Defense Directive 1000.3 contains the accident prevention policy of the Department of Defense including a requirement that "Emphasis will be placed on reduction of off-duty as well as on-- 3215 post automobile accidents."

3. Current Programs

a. Research

(1) Currently, the U. S. Army Transportation Engineering Agency at Fort Eustis, Virginia, is conducting braking tests and is engaged in an evaluation study of impact transmitted from roadbed to cargo. (2) Recently, the U. S. Army Transportation Board at Fort Lee, Virginia, completed a study of a triangular warning device designed

for use by drivers whose vehicles are disabled along the highway. (USATECOM Project No. 72-3300-01, Military Potential Test of Device, Warning, Highway, Triangular, Reflectorized (Foreign Standard); Proposed Plan for.

(3) Department of the Navy is conducting research on the use of a commercial driving simulator as an instrument to improve the quality of driver training for greater numbers of Navy personnel at less cost.

(4) Department of the Army recently completed an evaluation of the role of commercial driving simulators in training military drivers. Research was conducted under contract by the Human Resources Research Office (HumRRO) of George Washington University.

(5) Department of the Army's contribution to the Test Road Project at Ottawa, Illinois won praise from the American Association of State Highway Officials. Army Transportation Corps officers and enlisted men worked for two years on the all-weather, continuous run, in tests which will contribute to improvements in future road building. During the test, a fleet of Army manned trucks rolled up 17 million miles of travel on five test loops.

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(6) Department of the Army is currently conducting a special study of some 10,000 accidents involving Army operated, government-owned motor vehicles. Study is being conducted at the U. S. Army Transportation School.

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(7) Department of the Air Force initiated a special project at the Air Force Personnel Research Laboratory (Lackland AFB) to screen 12,000 basic airmen at the Induction Center to determine the extent of prior driver education and traffic accident/violation experience. This program is aimed at identifying those individuals who appear to have potential as poor driving risks so that their experience while in the service may be followed closely.

(8) Each of the military departments conducts personnel-type research on driving problems. For example, the Army completed an evaluation of the attitudes of Army personnel as they relate to driving. The purpose of this study was to provide commanders with more accurate information upon which to base their traffic accident control programs. And, more recently, the U. S. Army Personnel Research Office published a report on the value of selection tests as an aid in driver licensing.

b. Standards, policies and procedures. Basic policy and procedural guidance and assignment of responsibilities with regard to traffic safety are spelled out in regulations issued by the Secretary of Defense and by the heads of the military departments. Examples are:

(1) Department of Defense Directive 1000.3, "Accident Prevention Policy for the Department of Defense," outlines the general policies and responsibilities with regard to accident prevention and the correction of unsafe practices in the Department of Defense.

(2) Department of Defense Directive 7730.7, "Report of Aircraft and Motor Vehicle Accidents," requires systematic reporting and analysis of both government and private vehicle accidents involving personnel of the Department.

(3) "Military Police: Motor Vehicle Traffic Supervision," a Joint Service Regulation (DSAR 5720.1, AR 190-5, OPNAVINST 11200.5, AFR 125-14, MCO 5110.1) has been published. This regulation prescribes uniform policies and procedures for the supervision of motor vehicle traffic enforcement and provides a uniform administrative device for evaluating the driving performance of personnel serving in, or employed by, the military services and the Defense Supply Agency.

(4) Army Regulation 385-55, "Prevention of Army Motor Vehicle Accidents," assigns responsibilities and outlines standard procedures which align the motor vehicle accident prevention effort of the Army Safety Program with the Action Program of the President's Committee for Traffic Safety relative to the testing, licensing and control of personnel driving Government motor vehicles.

(5) Department of the Army published AR 608-10, "Personal Affairs Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance." This regulation prescribes uniform policy and procedures governing the solicitation, purchase, and ownership of minimum motor vehicle liability insurance. This regulation also requires commanders to counsel personnel under their command concerning the purchase of motor vehicle liability insurance, and for publishing information regarding driver responsibility, and local and State laws.

(6) Army Regulation 600-55, "Motor Vehicle Driver Selection, Testing and Licensing," provides standard procedures for the selection of persons to become Army motor vehicle drivers and for the testing of persons to be licensed as drivers of Army motor vehicles.

(7) Navy Civilian Personnel Instruction 5100 fixes responsibility for motor vehicle safety in the Department of the Navy, provides for Safe Driving Councils, accident investigating and reporting, operator examining, licensing and training, vehicle inspection and maintenance, deterrents and awards.

(8) Department of the Air Force inaugurated a "Base Control" program, the purpose of which is to identify bases with a high incidence of traffic fatalities. This program includes staff assistance visits to such bases by traffic safety personnel of the Directorate of Aerospace Safety.

(9) Each of the military departments has published directives regarding seat belt installation and use which:

private vehicles.

(a) Encourage personnel to install seat belts in their

(b)

Facilitate through appropriate means the procure

ment and installation of seat belts at minimum cost.

(c) Require the installation of a minimum of two seat belts in the front seat of private vehicles used regularly for official business.

(d) Require that all cars registered on military bases in states having laws governing the installation of seat belts comply with such laws.

(10) Department of the Air Force revised and updated its Injury and Fatality Cost Standards which had not been changed in eleven years.

(11) Department of the Air Force revised and expanded Chapter 9 "Safety in Motor Vehicle Operations" in Air Force Manual 32-3 Ground Safety Accident Prevention Handbook.

(12) Military departments are currently revising joint services regulation "Joint Procedures for Management of Administrative Use Motor Vehicles." This joint publication provides a single reference source containing policies and procedures for the management of all administrative use motor vehicles. (AR 58-1, OPNAV P44-2, AFM 77-1, MCO P11240.46).

(13) Department of the Air Force published AFR 32-7 "Private Vehicle Accident Prevention Program." This regulation sets the policy and explains procedures for developing and continuously applying a comprehensive private motor vehicle safety program.

(14) Department of the Air Force published AFR 32-12, "Protective Helmets for Operators of Motorcycles and Similar Vehicles." This regulation establishes a mandatory requirement for the use of protective helmets while operating such vehicles on Air Force bases.

(15) Department of the Air Force published AFR 127-104 "The Tokyo Raiders USAF Traffic Safety Award." This regulation establishes criteria for eligibility of commands to compete for a trophy. All commands, regardless of size or mission, may compete for this award.

(16) Department of the Air Force published AFR 127-113, "Marching Units and Pedestrian Safety," which establishes minimum policies and procedures to safeguard personnel movements on Air Force installations.

(17) Department of the Air Force published AFM 125-7, "Motor Vehicle Traffic Supervision" which contains guidelines for per- £ sonnel concerned with traffic supervision and motor vehicle safety in the Air Force.

(18) Department of the Air Force published AFR 32-11, "Safeĉ Driver Award" which establishes an award program for Air Force government vehicle operators and prescribes qualification requirements. Om

(19) Department of the Air Force AFP 77-1-1, "Safety Inspection of Privately-owned Vehicles" provides standards for inspection of cl private vehicles operated on an Air Force installation where civilianseca inspection is provided or required by law.

(20) Department of the Army published AR 385-10, "Safety Army Safety Program" which includes provision for recognition of civilian drivers of government-owned motor vehicles who operate for a year without a chargeable accident.

(21) Department of the Army published change to AR-760-5 which authorizes commanders to require the wearing of protective headgear of a commercial design with the uniform when considered appropriate for personnel operating a motorbike, motorcycle, or like vehicle.

(22) Department of the Army published change to AR 210-10, "Installations - Administration" which requires installation commanders u to publish regulations governing operation of motor vehicles on the ... installation. These regulations are required to embody the essential biv applicable principles contained in the Uniform Vehicle Code published by the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Laws and Ordinances.

(23) Department of the Army published AR 672-51 which provides for a safe driver award to be presented to uniformed personnel who operate a government-owned motor vehicle for 8,000 miles without a chargeable accident.

c. Training. All military departments engage in driver education programs for new drivers and for experienced drivers. Training is conducted for both military and civilian drivers of government-owned motor vehicles and, on a more limited basis, for military personnel who drive their own private vehicles. Following are examples of training activities or materials currently in use:

(1) Department of the Air Force is developing a twentyhour program of instruction in traffic safety education which will be required of all officers and enlisted men under the age of 25 who have