Highway Safety: NHTSA's Motorcycle Helmet Activities

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) funding of motorcycle helmet activities, focusing on: (1) how much NHTSA obligated and expended for motorcycle helmet activities annually during fiscal years 1994 through 1997; (2) whether the funds are having their desired effect by reducing the number of fatal head injuries; and (3) whether these expenditures are having their desired effect by influencing the number of states that have helmet laws.