Safety Board Recommends Blood Alcohol Technology in All New Cars September 22, 2022 By TOM KRISHER, AP Auto Writer The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that all new vehicles in the U.S. be required to have blood alcohol...
Pedestrian Fatalities Rise to 16% of Traffic Deaths March 4, 2019 A new report projects that 6,227 pedestrian fatalities occurred in 2018, the highest number in nearly three decades. Pedestrians will...
40 Nations, Excluding U.S. and China, Agree to Require Automatic Braking February 14, 2019 By Jamey Keaten Forty countries led by Japan and the European Union – but not the U.S. or China – have agreed to...
Traffic Deaths Top 40,000 Again February 13, 2019 By Ryan Beene Traffic fatalities on U.S. roads reached an estimated 40,000 in 2018, the third year in a row in which at...
Virginia Senate Panel Kills Stricter Seatbelt Law January 23, 2019 By ADRIAN TERAN-TAPIA, Capital News Service Virginia will continue to have one of the weakest seatbelt laws in the country after a Senate committee killed a...
Nevada Road Fatalities Hit 10-Year High in 2018 January 14, 2019 Fatalities on Nevada roads hit a 10-year high last year. Preliminary data from the Department of Public Safety show 331...
DOT, Ohio County Work to Make Roads Safer for Amish December 27, 2018 Work to widen roads and make other safety improvements is planned in an area of Ohio’s Amish country plagued by...
Opinion: More People Means More Cars, and More Deaths December 18, 2018 By Nathaniel Bullard, Bloomberg Opinion More than 1.3 million people died in road traffic accidents in 2016, an all-time high, according to the World Health...
Michigan Plans to Install 1,300 Roadside Reflectors Along M-22 September 7, 2018 The Michigan Department of Transportation plans to place hundreds of bright white reflectors along a popular road in the Traverse...
State Chart Reveals New Laws Have Little Impact on Reducing Distracted Driving April 11, 2018 By Kyle Stock If you’re driving right now, it’s far more likely you are reading this on your phone than you would have...