WASHINGTON — Traffic fatalities plummeted 52% in the first full year of STEER Act enforcement, Attorney General Brian Schwalb said.
The STEER Act allows D.C. to sue Maryland and Virginia drivers who haven’t paid tens of thousands of dollars in outstanding traffic fines. Its first full year in effect was 2025, and now that the year has come to a close, Schwalb posted a graph that shows it may be having some immediate success.
After two years in a row of highs in 2023 and 2024, traffic fatalities more than halved in 2025. It had the least amount of deadly incidents since 2012…