New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine today announced the appointment of Pamela S. Fischer as the new director of the Division of Highway Traffic Safety in the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Fischer, 47, vice president of public affairs for the AAA New Jersey Automobile Club in Florham Park, is a well-known advocate on traffic safety issues, including child passenger safety and the graduated driver's license law. She has been a member of the Highway Traffic Safety Policy Advisory Council for a dozen years and has been a member of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission since 2003.
Fischer said her priorities include establishing a teen driver study commission to ensure full implementation of the state's Graduated Driver's License law, increasing pedestrian safety and distracted driving educational efforts, and focusing attention on senior mobility issues.
Fischer has been closely involved with passage of a number of legislative initiatives in Trenton, including bicycle helmet laws, making seat belt use a primary offense, safety belts on school buses, and the nation's first 8 / 80 child booster seat law. She was chairman of the national AAA Child Passenger Safety Work Group.
Fischer, who served as co-chair of Governor Corzine's transportation transition team, is due to start work on March 6.