The 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety “Achieving Global Goals 2030” is currently taking place (19–20 February, 2020) in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Promoting Best-Practices and Supporting Crash Victims
The 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety “Achieving Global Goals 2030” is currently taking place (19–20 February, 2020) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Continue reading “Third Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety – Day One”
Since the beginning of 2020 there have been nine fatal incidents on South Dakota highways. Six of these fatalities resulted specifically from people not wearing their seatbelts, and then being ejected out of their cars onto the road or surrounding terrain, where they died…
Currently in South Dakota, not wearing a seatbelt is not a primary offense. Nor is it state law for adult passengers riding in the back of a vehicle to wear safety belts…
Continue reading “Not wearing a seatbelt can result in ejection from the vehicle and a horrendous, pointless death”
In a country where the horse has played such an important role, it is surprising to find that most state drivers’ manuals contain little if any information about drivers safely approaching and passing horses or other animals that are under human control or being herded.
Because of the number of collisions and other bad incidents, Ohio is one of several states to increase the safety legislation.
Continue reading “Another state increases safety rules for Amish buggies”
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety [IIHS], lawmakers in Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts and New York are considering raising their maximum speed limits. However, IIHS research shows that in the USA between 1993 and 2017 such increases killed almost 40,000 additional people.
Recently released numbers from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles illustrate how dangerous Florida roads can be for bicyclists…
Continue reading “142 Bicyclists were Killed on Florida’s Roads in 2019 Alone!”
An excellent Op-Ed from an informed and responsible media company:
“…[The Virginia] General Assembly is considering bills that would relax the threshold for reckless driving from 80 to 85 mph on… high-speed interstate highways.
Did you know that over a million people have been killed on America’s roads in just the last 26 years?
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Around 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 14, 2020, Lieutenant Shirley Lanning, Canadian County Sheriff’s Office, Oklahoma, was killed in a head-on crash on the Northwest Expressway in northwest Oklahoma City, according to Oklahoma City police.
Continue reading “MEMORIAL PAGE – Lieutenant Shirley Lanning, Canadian Cty Sheriffs, OK”
New York State Trooper Nathaniel Burroughs, aged 30, was fatally injured on February 14, 1997, while investigating a one-vehicle crash on Route 17 in the town of Mamakating, NY, during hazardous weather conditions.
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In all North American countries the law is literally one-sided: ‘drive on the right.’ But in our corporate ‘defensive’ and ‘advanced’ driver training courses at Advanced Drivers of North America, we are very frequently asked which is safer — driving on the left or the right.
Continue reading “Is driving on the left safer than driving on the right?”