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The Alabama Crash Facts Book (CFB) is an annual publication produced in part by CAPS that provides a wide breadth of traffic safety statistics for a variety of constituencies. While most of the users of the CFB are traffic safety personnel, this publication is also intended to serve as a public information conduit.
In June, 2011, RITA Administrator Peter Appel informed the university transportation centers (UTC) that the 59 current UTC Program grants would not be funded for Federal Fiscal Year 2011 but that a new rendition of the UTC program would be fully funded for that year. July saw the release of the grant solicitation from RITA, […]
Report Number: FHWA/VCTIR 12-R8 To incorporate safety into the regional planning process, a Virginia-specific resource guide was recently developed for use by districts of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and planning district commissions (PDCs). In order to determine how to enhance the implementation of the guide throughout Virginia, a pilot implementation of the guide […]
The purpose of this report is to document and further explain the results of an analysis of data from 2008 through the most current data that were available within CARE as of the date of this report. Note that while there were a very large number of variables/values that were found to be significant, these seemed […]
A State Farm Insurance poll found that 61 percent of teenagers surveyed said their parent had been distracted at least once by a phone while the teens were learning how to drive. And 53 percent of the parents admitted to the distraction. In the survey, 54 percent of the teens say they’ve seen parents using a phone […]
Larry Copeland, USA Today The emotional toll for Americans who lose a friend or loved one in a motor vehicle crash has a steep financial counterpart — an average $6 million per fatal accident, according to auto club AAA. In a new report comparing the cost to the nation of motor vehicle crashes with that […]
Road Safety 101 is an online certificate aimed at teaching the fundamentals of road safety. By completing this course, students will be able to understand the elements of successful road safety programs, identify contributing crash factors and how they interact as well as gain a better understanding of road safety data collection and systems.
An extended family of 10 was traveling from Chicago to New Jersey when their minivan hit a deer on the Indiana Toll Road and then stopped or slowed, authorities said. The van was then hit by a semitrailer going about 65 mph. Seven members of the family — three adults and for children — died […]