119THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION H. R. 758
AN ACT
To direct the United States Postal Service to issue regula-
tions requiring Postal Service employees and contractors
to report to the Postal Service traffic crashes involving
vehicles carrying mail that result in injury or death,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mail Traffic Deaths 2
Reporting Act of 2025’’. 3
SEC. 2. REGULATIONS ON TRAFFIC CRASH DEATHS AND IN-4
JURIES INVOLVING VEHICLES TRANS-5
PORTING MAIL. 6
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 7
date of enactment of this Act, the Postmaster General of 8
the Postal Service shall issue regulations to require the 9
collection, tracking, and public reporting of information 10
related to deaths and injuries resulting from traffic crash-11
es involving vehicles transporting mail. Such regulations 12
shall establish appropriate mechanisms to monitor and en-13
force compliance with the reporting requirements of this 14
Act and may utilize existing reporting mechanisms in use 15
at the time of enactment of this Act. 16
(b) R
EPORTS ONCRASHES.— 17
(1) E
MPLOYEES.—Any employee of the Postal 18
Service engaged in the transportation of mail shall 19
report to the Postal Service any traffic crash involv-20
ing the vehicle the employee was operating during 21
such transportation that resulted in injury or death 22
not later than three days after such crash. 23
(2) C
ONTRACTORS.—Any contractor (of any 24
tier) of the Postal Service engaged in the transpor-25
tation of mail shall report to the Postal Service any 26 3
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traffic crash involving the vehicle the contractor was 1
operating during such transportation that resulted 2
in injury or death not later than three days after 3
such crash. 4
(3) C
ONTENTS.—Any report submitted under 5
paragraph (1) or (2) shall include detailed informa-6
tion describing, at a minimum, the crash, including 7
the date, time, location, nature of the crash, infor-8
mation identifying the contractor, number of inju-9
ries, fatalities, and any contributing factors to the 10
crash. An employee or contractor (as the case may 11
be) shall update the report, in such form and man-12
ner as the Postal Service deems appropriate, to re-13
flect any change in crash-caused injuries or fatali-14
ties. 15
(4) A
CCOMMODATIONS IN EVENT OF INJURY .— 16
The Postal Service shall provide for procedures 17
under which reports may be submitted under this 18
subsection under an alternative deadline in the event 19
a Postal Service employee or contractor is unable to 20
submit a report due to serious injury resulting from 21
the applicable crash. 22
(5) S
TANDARD FORM .—The Postmaster Gen-23
eral shall create a standard form available to Postal 24 4
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Service employees and contractors for the purposes 1
of submitting reports under this subsection. 2
(c) D
ATABASE.— 3
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Postal Service shall 4
maintain a continuously updated internal digital 5
database that includes comprehensive information 6
related to deaths and injuries from traffic crashes 7
involving vehicles transporting mail. 8
(2) C
ONTENTS.—The database shall include 9
any information provided by Postal Service employ-10
ees and contractors under subsection (b). 11
(d) R
EPORT.— 12
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Postal Service shall 13
make available to the public an annual report sum-14
marizing information related to deaths and injuries 15
from traffic crashes involving vehicles transporting 16
mail. 17
(2) C
ONTENTS.—The report shall include ag-18
gregated statistics, trends, and analysis to enhance 19
transparency and accountability. 20
(3) P
RIVACY.—Information in the report shall 21
be made available to the public in a manner that 22
does not personally identify any Postal Service em-23
ployee, contractor, or any other individual. 24 5
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(e) PENALTIES.—Any Postal Service contractor who 1
fails to report a traffic crash within the deadline pre-2
scribed under subsection (b) shall be subject to appro-3
priate penalties as determined appropriate by the Postal 4
Service, including fines, suspension of contracts, or termi-5
nation of contracts. The Postal Service may take into ac-6
count the severity of the applicable traffic crash and the 7
frequency of noncompliance with the requirements of this 8
Act by the applicable Postal Service contractor when de-9
termining which penalty to apply (if any). 10
(f) C
RASHDEFINED.—In this Act, the term 11
‘‘crash’’— 12
(1) means an occurrence involving a commercial 13
motor vehicle operating on a highway in interstate 14
or intrastate commerce which results in— 15
(A) a fatality; 16
(B) bodily injury to a person who, as a re-17
sult of the injury, immediately receives medical 18
treatment away from the scene of the accident; 19
or 20
(C) one or more motor vehicles incurring 21
disabling damage as a result of the accident, re-22
quiring at least one of the motor vehicle to be 23
transported away from the scene by a tow truck 24
or other motor vehicle; and 25 6
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(2) does not include— 1
(A) an occurrence involving only boarding 2
and alighting from a stationary motor vehicle; 3
or 4
(B) an occurrence involving only the load-5
ing or unloading of cargo. 6
Passed the House of Representatives March 3,
2025.
Attest:
Clerk. 119
TH
CONGRESS
1
ST
S
ESSION
H. R. 758
AN ACT
To direct the United States Postal Service to issue
regulations requiring Postal Service employees
and contractors to report to the Postal Service
traffic crashes involving vehicles carrying mail
that result in injury or death, and for other pur-
poses.