Category: auto safety

Trucking Safety Should Be a Higher U.S. Priority, NTSB Says

Trucking Safety Should Be a Higher U.S. Priority, NTSB Says

Bloomberg News
January 13, 2015

[…] Highway regulators have failed to act on more than 100 recommendations to improve truck safety at a time when fatalities have risen for four straight years, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. […] The accidents that injured comedian Tracy Morgan in June and killed four members of a college softball team in September cast new light on America’s 2 million truckers, who are involved in crashes that kill almost 4,000 people a year. […]

Senior Driving: Be Proactive and Understand Your Limitations

Senior Driving: Be Proactive and Understand Your Limitations

Highway To Safety

[…] In terms of Senior Driving, he analyzes the data and recognizes that when compared to other age groups, there is a greater percentage of seniors dying in fatal crashes. However, it is usually because of their inability to recover from injuries received in a crash, not because of their driving abilities. […]

California Bike Law – Dooring

California Vehicle Code Section 22517

No person shall open the door of a vehicle on the side available to moving traffic unless it is reasonably safe to do so and can be done without interfering with the movement of such traffic, nor shall any person leave a door open on the side of a vehicle available to moving traffic for a period of time longer than necessary to load or unload passengers.

Let’s talk seriously about why cyclists break traffic laws

Let’s talk seriously about why cyclists break traffic laws

January 9, 2015
Washington Post

[…] If you’ve ever biked in Portland, or biked through Washington with someone from Portland, it certainly seems as if social norms about traffic laws vary from city to city. Marshall, for example, has observed cyclists in Portland police each other in ways I don’t often see in D.C. […]

Safety experts make the case for getting teens newer, larger cars

Safety experts make the case for getting teens newer, larger cars

LA Times 12/19/14

[…] A new analysis of fatal car crashes finds that teen drivers involved in such collisions were 46% more likely than their middle-aged counterparts to be in cars classified as “mini” or “small.” Teens killed behind the wheel were also 44% more likely to be driving “midsize” cars. […]

Crashes feared as red-light cameras go

Crashes feared as red-light cameras go

Columbus Dispatch
December 14, 2014

[…] Right-angle crashes at city intersections equipped with red-light cameras dropped by about 73 percent through 2012 — the last year for which data were available — and the numbers are expected to return to their pre-camera levels after they’re removed, said George Speaks, director of the Department of Public Safety. […]