Promoting Best-Practices and Supporting Crash Victims
April 9, 2020
Bollards and rubber curbs that prevent drivers from cutting across intersections at a diagonal can make streets safer for pedestrians, according to a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Continue reading “Simple infrastructure changes reduce risks to pedestrians on crosswalks”
Several major cities in the USA, such as New York, are laudably working towards the same immensely important target, known as ‘Vision Zero’.
Continue reading “How the cities of Oslo and Helsinki cut pedestrian deaths to zero”
A new report from GHSA predicts that 6,590 pedestrian fatalities occurred in 2019, the highest number in more than 30 years. (Figures by state, below.)
Even though states do vary somewhat in what they require from drivers when there is a static vehicle on the highway shoulder, a reasonable driver knows they should always:
Move Over, and If You Can’t Safely Move Over, Slow Down!
(and the order those words are in is very important indeed.) GALLERY BELOW.
Volvo Cars today calls on governments and regulators around the world to address a large inequality in road safety between developed and developing economies. Despite progress made in recent decades, official data shows a significant gap in the number of traffic fatalities between both categories of countries.
Continue reading “Volvo Cars calls on UN delegates to address deep-rooted road safety inequality”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!”
According to the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten (translation here), in 1975, 41 people died in traffic crashes in Oslo, but in 2019 only one person, a car driver, suffered that fate. And the number of pedestrians and cyclists killed in the city in 2019? …… Zero!
The video in the attached article from Wink News hits the nail squarely on the head in an opening comment: “Troopers are working to keep you safe on a dangerous stretch of roadway in Fort Myers…”
Whether it was planned or accidental, the TV channel has identified the real rogue in this situation — the dreadful design, in safety terms, of the road itself.
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.
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’.
Continue reading “Better US Road Safety Culture may be as Important as Vision Zero”