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Transportation.gov: U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Highway Administration, and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration are joining forces with the National Safety Council (NSC) to launch the Road to Zero coalition with the goal of ending fatalities on the nation’s roads within the next 30 years. The Department of Transportation has committed $1 […]
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Deadly encounters between police officers and motorists have lawmakers across the country thinking driver’s education should require students to be taught what to do in a traffic stop. A North Carolina bill would require instructors to describe “appropriate interactions with law enforcement officers.” Illinois passed a similar law recently, and another awaits the Virginia governor’s […]
This article deals with Teen Drivers, Drowsy Driving and Distracted Driving. If you have any interest in these, read the article.
USA Today released an article explaining research that supports young drivers being dangerous on the road. Two concerning statistics in the research: For 19 to 24 year-olds, 88% were found to engage in risky driving behavior. Much of this risky driving behavior is caused by texting while driving. 2015 saw a 7.7% increase in traffic […]
Nap.edu: An ordinary car has about 30,000 separate parts, but only one component is persistently prone to catastrophic failure: the driver. Whereas 2 percent of accidents are caused by equipment malfunction, 94 percent are the driver’s fault. That is why much of the progress in highway safety during the past century has resulted frombehavioral science that reveals […]
Yellowhammernews: We’ve all been there. You’re driving down the interstate and suddenly come up on someone who’s going much slower than you are. If you’re both in the right lane, you just casually ease into the left lane and go around them. But what if there are slower drivers in both lanes? That’s when the […]
Motor vehicle travel is a major means of transportation in the United States, providing an unparalleled degree of mobility. Yet for all its advantages, motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death for age 11 and every age 16 through 24 in 2014.1 The mission of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is to […]
NHTSA: In 2014 there were an estimated 6,064,000 police-reported traffic crashes in which 32,675 people were killed and an estimate 2,338,000 people were injured. An average of 90 people died each day in motor vehicle crashes in 2014, one fatality every 16 minutes.
The statewide driver traffic safety survey provides baseline metrics for the Safety Division and others to use in understanding perceptions and self-reported behaviors related to focus issues. A core set of questions addresses nationally agreed upon priorities, including seat belts, impaired driving, and speeding. In addition to the core issues, questions were included to better […]