News

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

  • August 20th, 2014

Drive on a city’s streets at night and you’re guided by artificial lights: glowing traffic signals beckoning you forward, the headlights of a car trailing you, a sign warning of work ahead. Artificial lights may soon guide your car, too: In the quest for cars that understand the world around them and respond intelligently, a […]

  • August 7th, 2014

The Alabama Department of Public Safety, along with the Alabama Trucking Association, are participating in the “Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks” campaign to reduce aggressive driving between passenger and large commercial vehicles. Among the violations that are the main focus of the ongoing program are following too closely, improper lane use, drivers cutting off others, […]

  • July 15th, 2014

The 2018 Alabama Rural Road Safety Conference is for city engineers, county engineers, public works officials, transportation planners, DOT personnel, and others who are responsible for the design, maintenance, and safety of rural roads. This year’s conference is to strengthen your knowledge of available tools, countermeasures, and processes to improve safety on your roads. The […]

  • July 8th, 2014

Since 2005, road safety in the U.S. has improved substantially. Of interest in this study was road safety in the individual U.S. states and the District of Columbia, both in terms of the current status and recent changes. The analysis included the use of two primary measures: fatality rate per distance driven, and fatality rate per population. The […]

  • May 30th, 2014

The total estimated number of non-occupational, operational ATV-related, emergency department-treated injuries to drivers or passengers of ATVs between January 1, 2010 and August 31, 2010 is 71,800. Extrapolated annually, the estimated number of non-occupational, operational ATV-related, emergency department-treated injuries to drivers or passengers of ATVs for 2010 is 101,000. View PDF