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State Traffic Data: 2014 Data
NHTSA: Traffic fatalities decreased by 1% from 2013 to 2014 (32,894 to 32,675) for the United States.
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New Alabama Law Will Mean More Citations Written At Traffic Accidents
ABC 33: A new state law will result in more tickets being written at traffic accidents. Right now, an officer must witness the violation that caused an accident in order to write a citation, unless it’s a DUI. Accidents may be caused by running a red light, following too close, failure to yield a right- […]
Seat Belt Use in 2015
NHTSA: In 2015 seat belt use in the United States ranged from 69.5 percent in New Hampshire to 97.3 percent in California and Georgia. Nineteen States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Northern Mariana Islands achieved belt use rates of 90 percent or higher. These results are from probability-based observational surveys conducted by […]
Status Report: Tough Test for Pickups
Three out of seven large pickup trucks IIHS evaluated in a new round of crash tests earn an acceptable or higher rating for occupant protection in a small overlap front crash. IIHS evaluated two body styles of each 2016 model-year pickup — crew cab and extended cab. Crew cabs have four full doors and two […]
Further Development of the Safety and Congestion Relationship for Urban Freeways
TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-L07-RR-3: Further Development of the Safety and Congestion Relationship for Urban Freeways explores the relationship between safety and congestion and tests the relationship among various nonrecurrent congestion scenarios.
A Framework for Collecting Emergency Responder/Roadside Worker Struct-By/Near-Miss Data
No one would argue that emergency and roadside workers should be safer than they are now when they work in and around the highway, and no one would argue that we should do more to help reduce the risks that these individuals face while they work. However, to achieve zero deaths of emergency and roadway […]
Traffic Safety Facts 2014 Data: Speeding
NHTSA considers a crash to be speeding-related if the driver was charged with a speeding-related offense or if a police officer indicated that racing, driving too fast for conditions, or exceeding the posted speed limit was a contributing factor in the crash. In this fact sheet the 2014 information on speeding-related data in fatal crashes […]
Traffic Safety Facts: 2014 Data
When seat belt use is examined for the Nation, not limited to fatal crash data, the use rate was 87 percent in 2014. In 2005 the national seat belt use rate was 82 percent. This information comes from the National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS) which is the only survey that provides nationwide probability-based observed […]
Platoons of Self-Driving Trucks Cross Europe
Yesterday, six platoons of self-driving trucks converged in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, part of the 2016 European Truck Platooning Challenge and marking the first time that trucks equipped with the technology had crossed international borders. Platooning is when a group of automated or semi-automated trucks (a.k.a. a road train) is connected via wi-fi on the road. The […]
Status Report: Long Haul
Historic mandate for electronic logs to bring trucker work-rule compliance into 21st century. Electronic logging devices should help reduce the problem of fatigue-related truck crashes by helping enforce federal hours-of-service rules for truck drivers.