redesigning dangerous roads in hopes of suppressing crash numbers that were going down until now. people should be outraged. reporter: national transportation safety board chair jennifer hommandy was rear-ended at a virginia intersection last year. her agency recommended that automakers install automatic braking and collision warnings in all cars. but regulators have not yet acted. so we have to change. we need all stake holders to come to the table and we need to build in redundancy so people survive crashes. both vehicles went up in flames. reporter: this reverend says 80 people have been killed on this stretch of indian head highway in the last 15 years. he says directing more federal funding to combat dangerous driving is only the start of a road to lasting change. it is going to be hard to see. you re doing this interview and people are whizzing by you. yes. yes. that s the part of the indifference that people have about driving. as i say, this type of
administration s plan to make driving safer, billions from the bipartisan infrastructure law to help counteract for human error behind the wheel. people make mistakes, but human mistakes don t always have to be lethal. reporter: it was march 17th, 2000, when karen pulled over to fix her gas cap when she was hit by a drunk driver. cynthia identify ed her sister s body. she would want me out here to make a difference in saving more lives because she didn t have to go that way. reporter: the crash happened here, on indian head highway in maryland. last year, the highest recorded speed here was 149 miles per hour. safety advocates call it the highway of death. straight shot and few traffic lights and people use this as a race way. if you want to speed, this is the place to do it. reporter: some of the money from the dot s national roadway safety strategy will go to