What if a wrong-way driver is barreling toward your car, and no one warns you?
That nightmare became reality for beloved Major League Baseball veteran Mike Brumley Jr. on a quiet Mississippi highway last June.
Multiple drivers dialed 911, begging dispatchers to stop the wrong-way driver speeding east in the westbound lanes of I-20 near Edwards, Mississippi.
No AMBER, Silver, or highway alert ever flashed. After miles of wrong-way driving, the car slammed head-on into Mike’s pickup truck, ending his life.
His wife lost a husband, his four children lost a dad, his two young grandsons lost their grandfather, and baseball lost a mentor who shaped champions.
This petition is very personal to me. Our families grew up together. Our daughters and sons played basketball on the same teams for years. We celebrated childhood birthdays and then weddings together.
I was with his family the night they told his mother and sister that he was gone. I held his wife and daughter before they left to reach his son, Logan, who was hospitalized from the same crash.
That moment never leaves you, the heartbreak, and the knowledge that this tragedy could have been prevented.
Even worse, tragedies like Mike’s keep happening because authorities ignore the use of alert systems that taxpayers built to protect us.
Every missed alert is another threat to families when traveling America’s interstates.
Each week we wait, another family may never make it home from vacation, practice, or church.
Imagine your navigation app suddenly shouted WRONG WAY DRIVER and directed you off the interstate. That technology exists, it baffles me as to why authorities do not use it.
In preparing for this petition, I discovered the answer. The federal law that will allow for the use of current technology has not been written, sponsored, or passed.
Wrong-way crashes kill hundreds yearly, yet the fix already sits in troopers’ control rooms waiting for a signal.
The Mike Brumley Interstate Safety Alert Act simply orders states to trigger AMBER-style warnings the moment a wrong-way report arrives.
Phones buzz, highway signs flash red arrows, and navigation apps reroute drivers away from deadly lanes within seconds.
Mike coached teamwork; his legislation does the same by linking federal, state, and local responders under one clear rule.
No new towers. No new taxes. Just using the network that already blasts various alerts to every pocket.
State patrols already enter wrong-way reports into their systems, yet the data remains in monitors instead of reaching drivers’ dashboards.
Under the bill, that same keystroke would ripple through digital billboards, Waze, Apple Maps, and newer car displays within seconds.
Lives saved each year could top the number of Major League games Mike played and coached.
CitizenGO unites everyday people who refuse to let bureaucratic silence kill another child, parent, or teammate.
Mike Brumley’s legacy will save lives for generations to come.
We can save families the heartache that the Brumleys have had to endure.
You may have a question, and I will answer it for you. The wrong-way driver survived and now faces decades in prison. Two families, the Brumleys and the driver’s, will live with this heartbreak the rest of their lives. With a simple alert, both families could have been spared this lifelong pain.
Lawmakers pay attention to the demands of a surge of voices.
Each signature tells the Committee that we are counting lives, because seven seconds of warning can mean seventy years of life.
