H.R. 2992: To amend title 23, United States Code, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act with respect to vehicle roadside crashes, work zone safety, and for other purposes.

HR 2992 amends both title 23 of the United States Code and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to focus federal attention on two undercounted dangers: crashes involving disabled vehicles on the roadside and crashes in work zones. The bill was introduced on 2025-04-24 and has 6 cosponsors. Its core idea is simple: if the government does not clearly count these deaths and injuries, it is harder to prevent them.

The bill broadens who must be considered under the Highway Safety Improvement Program in 23 U.S.C. § 148(c)(2). It adds “occupants and pedestrians associated with disabled vehicles” to the vulnerable road users and groups that safety planners must consider. That is a meaningful change because it treats someone standing near a disabled car, or sitting in it, as part of the safety planning picture rather than as an afterthought.

HR 2992 also updates federal data rules in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Section 24108(c)(2) would be amended so that "fatalities" data collection expressly includes "roadside deaths and work zone deaths." Section 24109(a) would be expanded so reviews of public awareness laws cover not just an "authorized emergency vehicle," but also a "motorist, disabled vehicle, worker, vehicle or machinery in a work zone." In plain English, the bill tries to make move-over or slow-down campaigns reflect the real mix of people and equipment drivers encounter.

The bill then moves from data to accountability. It directs the Secretary of Transportation to convene 2 working groups — one on disabled vehicle crashes and one on work zone crashes — with OSHA and, for the work zone group, the Federal Highway Administration as partners. Those groups would collect, analyze, compile, and publish crash data; develop strategic plans for fatal and non-fatal injury crashes; improve data sharing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; promote local use of the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria; and provide annual updates. On top of that, the FHWA Administrator would have to send Congress an annual report identifying which States used authority under 23 U.S.C. § 120(c)(3)(B)(vi), the specific dollar amounts each State dedicated to work zone safety contingency funds, and recommendations to improve nationwide implementation.