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December 5, 2019December 5, 2019

Is the USA Doing Enough to Prevent Drunk Driving?

Alcohol-impaired Driving Fatalities in the USA

According to the ‘Road Safety Annual Report 2019 – USA’, there were 10,874 fatalities in “alcohol-impaired driving crashes.”

Don't drink and drive. — A drunk driver’s potential view of a highway… and your family might be in his or her path. (Copyright image, 2014.)

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December 3, 2019December 3, 2019

Better US Road Safety Culture may be as Important as Vision Zero

Just yesterday, we posted excerpts and our comments regarding the Road Safety Annual Report 2019, and America’s poor performance by comparison with the vast majority of other developed nations.

This is what? “My pick-up is bigger than your car, so I’m coming across!”? (Copyright image, 2017.)

It has long been known that one of the key features in highway safety is the overall attitude of the people in the region or country concerned — the ‘road safety culture’.
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