News

Read the latest news and announcements from traffic safety interest groups and about traffic safety topics here.

  • December 12th, 2014

Doyle Rice, USA Today It’s something most of us do every day, yet it remains the most hazardous and potentially deadly thing we do: Driving our car. Amazingly, there is roughly one motor vehicle accident every 10 seconds in the U.S., according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Nationally, the average U.S. driver gets […]

  • December 10th, 2014

As a brand new school year begins, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reminds parents, students and motorists to be alert and to put safety first in school zones and near school bus stops. According to NHTSA data, over the past 10 years, 44 school-aged children and teens between the […]

  • December 4th, 2014

Truck Safety advocates are calling for President Obama to veto the funding bill if it includes provisions to extend truck drivers’ hours or allow bigger trucks on the roads. “Americans do not want to share the road with bigger and longer trucks driven by overworked and overtired truckers,” said Jackie Gillian, president of the Advocates […]

  • November 21st, 2014

Report Number: WBS: 25-1121-0003-140 The majority of crash fatalities in the United States occur along rural roadways. These roadways typically have low volumes and widespread crashes. In other words, no one location generally has an unexpectedly high number of crashes. Systemic safety tools/methodologies can be used in this type of situation because they evaluate and […]

  • November 17th, 2014

RoadSafe partner ingenie’s Young Driver Report presents compelling evidence that telematics insurance policies that measure how young people drive and provide feedback to help them become safer, can significantly reduce crash frequency among this high-risk group. Road crashes are still the biggest accidental killer of young people Young drivers are involved in 20% of killed and seriously injured […]

  • November 12th, 2014

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is investigating whether truck drivers are being pressured to get behind the wheel and drive long hours even when they’re tired. This comes in response to an FMCSA rule proposed in March that would require truckers to record their hours electronically. The agency is looking into whether trucking […]

  • October 29th, 2014

In preparation for the Ebola Response Update Teleconference and Webinar held on October 24, 2014, organizers invited participants to submit advance questions so presenters could frame their presentations. 

  • October 27th, 2014

True or False?  In fatal crashes between cars and trucks, it is the truck that is most often at fault?  The chart below shows that this is false.  Heavy trucks only caused about 22% of the fatal crashes in which they were involved.  The general driving public has a sense that the truck causes the […]