New York Times
May 4, 2015
[…] In May of that year, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection cited the oil and gas company for violating the Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Act and Clean Streams Law by letting natural gas enter the drinking wells, though the company admitted no fault. In 2012, the homeowners settled the lawsuit and the company bought the three households. […]
Reuters News
4/15/15
[…] General Motors Co will not have to face dozens of lawsuits accusing it of concealing an ignition-switch defect that led to the recall of 2.6 million vehicles, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled on Wednesday.
GM had argued it was protected from claims on vehicles pre-dating its 2009 exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, while plaintiffs in the lawsuits said the company violated their constitutional rights by failing to disclose the defect. […]
New York Times
4/10/15
[…] But the company’s handling of a recent steering issue sheds new light on where G.M., and regulators, draw the line at what constitutes a safety issue worthy of a recall. […] In one of those crashes, the owner of a 2014 Cruze told the agency of “driving approximately 15 miles per hour, making a left-hand turn, the steering wheel seized and caused the vehicle to crash into a sidewalk.” […]
Evening Standard
5/5/15
[…] Delays are expected throughout the day closer to the largely segregated £47 million “Crossrail for cyclists” route, which runs via Hyde Park Corner, Parliament, Blackfriars and the Tower of London. […] “At the end of the day, does London need protected cycling? Yes it does,” he said. […]
Boston Globe
May 5, 2015
The largest ambulance company in the United States has been ordered to pay $1.5 million in wrongful death damages after a jury found it responsible for the death of a 67-year-old dialysis patient from Massachusetts, a lawyer for the patient’s family said. […]
IIHS
Status Report, Vol. 50, No. 3 | March 31, 2015
[…] A growing number of vehicles are equipped with front crash prevention technology that can recognize the back of another vehicle and prevent a rear-end crash. If more of these systems could also recognize the backs of bicycles and bicyclists, they could prevent or mitigate a large portion of the crashes that kill people traveling on two wheels. […]
5/4/15
[…] How do we look at the probability of failure, and its costs? Malcolm Gladwell addresses these issues in the New Yorker magazine of May 4, 2015 (pages 46 and following), pointing out that perfection is never achieved, and that emotion and media attention may skew public perceptions and regulatory action. […]
San Jose Mercury News
5/4/15
[…] rivers, bicyclists and pedestrians on San Jose streets use the second safest urban roads in the nation. But now there’s a plan to make them safer, as the city embarks on an aggressive $80 million program to slow down speeders, narrow wide streets in favor of bike lanes, make crosswalks more visible and improve lighting across the Bay Area’s biggest city.
The city Department of Transportation on Monday will unveil what is being called “Vision Zero,” […]
NBC San Diego
5/1/15
[…] Under pressure from U.S. safety regulators, Ford is expanding a recall of small and midsize cars to fix door latches that may not stay closed.[…]
