Mayor Bill de Blasio outlined a wide-ranging plan on Tuesday to make New York streets safer for pedestrians and drivers, revealing a combination of policing and transportation initiatives designed to bring down the number of traffic fatalities in the nation’s …
Traffic fatalities are down but the number of wrecks has risen in a 23-county area of South Texas where oil drilling has boomed in recent years. The San Antonio Express News reports there were 236 fatalities in 2013, a drop …
The Wyoming Highway Patrol says fewer people died in traffic accidents across the state last year than in 2012. The Powell Tribune reports 87 people were killed in the state in 2013, 34 fewer than the year before and the …
State officials say traffic deaths last year fell below 100 for the first time since 1963. The Office of Highway Safety said Friday that there were 99 traffic fatalities in Delaware in 2013. That’s compared with 116 fatalities in 2012. …
Preliminary figures from the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security show the state had 988 traffic fatalities in 2013. That’s only the fourth time in 50 years the number has dipped under 1,000. The 2013 number is a more-than-2 …
Ohio had a record low number of traffic deaths in 2013, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the State Highway Patrol. At least 923 people died on Ohio roads during the past year, and additional deaths are under review …
Law enforcement agencies plan two more DUI checkpoints this year. The Office of Highway Safety says they will be conducted Dec. 27 and 31 in Newark. Officials say 96 people have died in traffic accidents in Delaware so far this …
Kentucky is on track for its lowest number of traffic fatalities in decades. The Courier-Journal reports fewer than 600 fatal crashes had been reported by mid-December. The last time the number was that low was in the 1940s. The newspaper …
The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety reports that the number of traffic fatalities in the state in October was 12 fewer that in October 2012. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. George Brown reports 48 traffic fatalities in October, 2013, compared to …
The Governor’s Highway Safety Office and the Tennessee Highway Patrol are reaching out to communities across the state to offer help in reducing traffic fatalities. The Tennessean reports that the agencies are putting more resources in counties that have the …