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Most strategies for encouraging seat belt use by adults focus on drivers and front seat passengers, but rear seat belt use by adults is lower than front seat belt use and warrants attention. In 2013, 883 unbelted rear seat passenger vehicle occupants age 8 and older died in traffic crashes in the United States. This […]
AASHTO: Motor vehicle travel on all U.S. highways and streets increased 1.2 percent in October from a year earlier – adding 3.3 billion more vehicle miles – and continued a string of record-high volume levels. The Federal Highway Administration in its latest monthly “Traffic Volume Trends” report said motorists racked up an estimated 275 billion […]
MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) – The holiday travel season has come to an end and Alabama State Troopers say the 17-day stretch saw significantly fewer traffic deaths than during the same time in 2016. In all, State Troopers worked 23 traffic deaths during the Christmas and New Year’s Day period. That covers a span from midnight on […]
AAA: Driving on a beautiful sunny day can provide stunning scenery, but it can also create a hazard if the driver’s view is compromised by a glaring sun.
Click It or Ticket: A special traffic enforcement program called “Click It or Ticket” (CIOT) is conducted between April and June each year in Alabama. Multiple agencies and organizations participate in this effort, under the leadership of the Office of Highway Safety in the Law Enforcement/Traffic Safety (LETS) Division of the Alabama Department of Economic and […]
NHTSA: From 1980 to 2015 there were 943 crashes involving at least one occupant fatality in a law enforcement vehicle. These 943 crashes involved 948 law enforcement vehicles. A total of 998 people were killed as occupants of law enforcement vehicles in these crashes. On an annual average, over the 6 years from 2010 to […]
AL.com: The Alabama State Trooper Association today called on legislators and Gov. Kay Ivey to address what they say is a critical shortage of troopers on the road. The problem is not new and is mostly the result of budget cuts, officials said. Today’s weather could demonstrate how the shortage affects drivers and passengers, they said, […]
Cpsalabama.org is an excellent resource for child passenger safety information for the state of Alabama. The site’s interactive tools allow users to obtain local contact information for CPS coordinators.