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After watching a pedestrian almost get run over by a car on her way to class, Paige Cisneros decided this was a frightening enough occurrence to stop wearing headphones while walking. “It’s dangerous because you can’t hear oncoming traffic or if someone honks their horn at you,” Cisneros said. The United States had 5,987 pedestrian […]
Statement for attribution to Governors Highway Safety Association Executive Director Jonathan Adkins WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the National Governors Association (NGA) releases its State Strategies to Reduce Highway and Traffic Fatalities and Injuries: A Road Map for States. The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) is proud to have assisted in the development of this important […]
Traffic Safety Facts Annual Report Tables The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has deployed a dynamic and interactive online portal for its annual traffic safety report – Traffic Safety Facts: A Compilation of Motor Vehicle Crash Data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the General Estimates System.
The objective of the study was to understand whether young drivers learn more or less quickly to reduce certain types of collisions in the first few years of driving. In addition, the study sought to explore whether young driver accident trends have changed over time possibly as a result of demographic, societal or technological advances.
Whether you’re getting ready for a winter weekend road trip or just performing routine maintenance on your vehicle, don’t forget that your tires are important for safety and savings. Tire Facts: Only 19% of consumers properly check and inflate their tires 1 in 4 cars have at least one tire that is significantly under-inflated Tires […]
SECTION 32-5-222 OF THE ALABAMA CODE At least 1 yr or 20 lbs. – rear facing infant or rear facing convertible seat At least 5 yrs or 40 lbs. – forward facing convertible or forward facing car seat Until age 6 – booster seat Until age 15 years – seat belt $25 with no court […]
Four Requirements for Any Child Riding in Motor Vehicles: Rear-Facing Only Seats and Rear-Facing Convertible Seats (Infants/Toddlers) Convertible Seats and Forward-Facing Seats with Harness (Toddler/Preschoolers) Booster Seats (School-Aged Children) Seat Belts (Older Children)
This study compared, for each U.S. state, the fatalities per population from road crashes with fatalities per population from five leading causes of death (heart diseases, cancer, lung diseases, strokes, and Alzheimer’s disease) and from all causes. The data, applicable to 2015, came from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Highway […]
GHSA: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (U.S. DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published the Final Rule for the implementation of the national behavioral highway safety programs in the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act.
The big challenge posed by Secretary Chao is one we have recognized from the outset, and we totally agree with her today. However, this problem can easily be overcome by keeping all of the driver controls intact and installing and testing (by the vehicle purchasers) of a kill-switch that instantaneously turns over control to the driver. This can be phased out over […]
