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Speeding is often a forgotten issue Statement for attribution to Jonathan Adkins, GHSA Executive Director WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) thanks the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for studying and evaluating approaches to reduce speeding-related traffic crashes and raising awareness of this critical safety issue. Speeding is a factor in approximately the same […]
WASHINGTON (July 25, 2017) — The National Transportation Safety Board released Tuesday the results of its safety study on reducing speeding-related passenger vehicle crashes on the nation’s roads. In the study, the NTSB recommends completion of all actions in the DOT 2014 Speed Management Program Plan, assessment of the effectiveness of point-to-point speed enforcement in […]
This article deals with Teen Drivers, Drowsy Driving and Distracted Driving. If you have any interest in these, read the article.
How do you reduce the number of highway accidents? Just tell all the cars to look out for each other. As far out as that may sound, that’s exactly what the National Transportation Safety Board recommended this week, following a fatal bus crash, and it’s part of a fundamental shift in the automotive world. Cars are […]
Sometimes a human driver is still the best option. Just this week, federal safety regulators recommended that all cars be equipped with automatic braking systems that can stop cars when drivers don’t see vehicles or other obstacles in front of them. The National Transportation Safety Board says this could save thousands of lives. But now these safety […]
Over 1,700 people were killed and 500,000 injured in rear end crashes 2012, according to federal agency. That’s why the National Transportation Safety Board is urging regulators to make automatic braking systems a standard feature on all new cars. “Safety should be a basic feature rather than an option we have to purchase and that […]
