A Colorado Springs lawmaker is angry about a Colorado Department of Transportation public- service announcement aimed at Spanish-speaking drivers.
CDOT is expected today to introduce the PSA, in which the announcer, speaking in Spanish, asks drivers to buckle up. It will be up to television stations, such as Univision, to determine whether and when they run the ad.
Transportation department leaders decided to shoot the PSA after statistics showed that almost 60 percent of the 80 Hispanics killed in traffic accidents last year were not wearing seat belts, CDOT spokeswoman Stacy Stegman said. That accounted for a full 23 percent of the unbuckled accident deaths in Colorado, she said. READ FULL STORY
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