Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2025
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1Short title
This section would let the Act be called the Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2025.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2025 .
2Regulations on traffic crash deaths and injuries involving vehicles transporting mail
This section would require the Postmaster General, within 90 days after the Act becomes law, to issue regulations requiring the collection, tracking, and public reporting of information on deaths and injuries from traffic crashes involving vehicles transporting mail. Those regulations must set up ways to monitor and enforce compliance with the reporting requirements, and they may use reporting mechanisms the Postal Service already has in place at the time the Act becomes law. Any Postal Service employee who is transporting mail would have to report to the Postal Service any traffic crash involving the vehicle the employee was operating during that transport that resulted in injury or death, no later than three days after the crash. Any contractor of the Postal Service, at any tier, who is transporting mail would have the same duty: report to the Postal Service, within three days, any traffic crash involving the vehicle the contractor was operating during that transport that resulted in injury or death. Each report must include, at a minimum, the date, time, and location of the crash, the nature of the crash, information identifying the contractor, the number of injuries and fatalities, and any factors that contributed to the crash. The employee or contractor must update the report, in whatever form and manner the Postal Service decides is appropriate, if the crash-caused injuries or fatalities change. The Postal Service must set up procedures allowing an employee or contractor to submit a report under an alternative deadline if a serious injury from the crash makes it impossible to report on time. The Postmaster General must create a standard form for employees and contractors to use when submitting these reports. The Postal Service must maintain a continuously updated internal digital database with comprehensive information on deaths and injuries from traffic crashes involving vehicles transporting mail, and that database must include all information submitted by employees and contractors under the reporting requirements. The Postal Service must also make an annual report available to the public summarizing information on these deaths and injuries; the report must include aggregated statistics, trends, and analysis meant to increase transparency and accountability, and it may not be published in a way that personally identifies any Postal Service employee, contractor, or other individual. A Postal Service contractor who fails to report a crash within the required deadline would be subject to penalties the Postal Service decides are appropriate, including fines, suspension of the contract, or termination of the contract; in deciding which penalty to apply, if any, the Postal Service may consider how severe the crash was and how often that contractor has failed to comply with these requirements. For purposes of the Act, a crash means an event involving a commercial motor vehicle operating on a highway in interstate or intrastate commerce that results in a fatality, or in bodily injury to a person who immediately receives medical treatment away from the scene as a result of the injury, or in one or more motor vehicles suffering disabling damage that requires at least one of the vehicles to be towed away from the scene by a tow truck or other motor vehicle. A crash does not include an event that involves only boarding or alighting from a stationary motor vehicle, or an event that involves only the loading or unloading of cargo.
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2. Regulations on traffic crash deaths and injuries involving vehicles transporting mail (a) In general Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Postmaster General of the Postal Service shall issue regulations to require the collection, tracking, and public reporting of information related to deaths and injuries resulting from traffic crashes involving vehicles transporting mail. Such regulations shall establish appropriate mechanisms to monitor and enforce compliance with the reporting requirements of this Act and may utilize existing reporting mechanisms in use at the time of enactment of this Act. (b) Reports on crashes (1) Employees Any employee of the Postal Service engaged in the transportation of mail shall report to the Postal Service any traffic crash involving the vehicle the employee was operating during such transportation that resulted in injury or death not later than three days after such crash. (2) Contractors Any contractor (of any tier) of the Postal Service engaged in the transportation of mail shall report to the Postal Service any traffic crash involving the vehicle the contractor was operating during such transportation that resulted in injury or death not later than three days after such crash. (3) Contents Any report submitted under paragraph (1) or (2) shall include detailed information describing, at a minimum, the crash, including the date, time, location, nature of the crash, information identifying the contractor, number of injuries, fatalities, and any contributing factors to the crash. An employee or contractor (as the case may be) shall update the report, in such form and manner as the Postal Service deems appropriate, to reflect any change in crash-caused injuries or fatalities. (4) Accommodations in event of injury The Postal Service shall provide for procedures under which reports may be submitted under this subsection under an alternative deadline in the event a Postal Service employee or contractor is unable to submit a report due to serious injury resulting from the applicable crash. (5) Standard form The Postmaster General shall create a standard form available to Postal Service employees and contractors for the purposes of submitting reports under this subsection. (c) Database (1) In general The Postal Service shall maintain a continuously updated internal digital database that includes comprehensive information related to deaths and injuries from traffic crashes involving vehicles transporting mail. (2) Contents The database shall include any information provided by Postal Service employees and contractors under subsection (b). (d) Report (1) In general The Postal Service shall make available to the public an annual report summarizing information related to deaths and injuries from traffic crashes involving vehicles transporting mail. (2) Contents The report shall include aggregated statistics, trends, and analysis to enhance transparency and accountability. (3) Privacy Information in the report shall be made available to the public in a manner that does not personally identify any Postal Service employee, contractor, or any other individual. (e) Penalties Any Postal Service contractor who fails to report a traffic crash within the deadline prescribed under subsection (b) shall be subject to appropriate penalties as determined appropriate by the Postal Service, including fines, suspension of contracts, or termination of contracts. The Postal Service may take into account the severity of the applicable traffic crash and the frequency of noncompliance with the requirements of this Act by the applicable Postal Service contractor when determining which penalty to apply (if any). (f) Crash defined In this Act, the term crash — (1) means an occurrence involving a commercial motor vehicle operating on a highway in interstate or intrastate commerce which results in— (A) a fatality; (B) bodily injury to a person who, as a result of the injury, immediately receives medical treatment away from the scene of the accident; or (C) one or more motor vehicles incurring disabling damage as a result of the accident, requiring at least one of the motor vehicle to be transported away from the scene by a tow truck or other motor vehicle; and (2) does not include— (A) an occurrence involving only boarding and alighting from a stationary motor vehicle; or (B) an occurrence involving only the loading or unloading of cargo.
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