The Oregonian
3/20/15
[…] “We were pretty surprised at the changing clothes bit,” OSU transportation engineering professor David Hurwitz told NPR. “Teens are busy, I guess.” […]
New Republic
3/18/15
[…] “Design around the human as we are,” advises Claes Tingvall, the traffic safety guru behind Vision Zero, the Swedish program with a goal to eliminate all traffic fatalities. New York’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, has sought to emulate the program in New York, after some particularly hideous deaths of pedestrians in the last year. […]
HNGN
3/19/15
[…] Younger drivers have always gotten into more accidents than those with more experience, and the invention of cell phones and text messaging has driven those numbers to historic levels, Oregon State University reported. […]
The Oregonian
3/18/15
[…] A bus crash near Medford in 1965 and another near Pendleton in 2012 killed a combined total of 23 people and injured 63 more.
Both crashes sparked a discussion about the lack of seat belts on buses. […]
Chicago Tribune
March 16, 2015
[…] Only limited research on fatigued driving has been conducted and the data is old, Rosekind said during an interview with the Tribune before his address to the Lifesavers National Conference on Highway Safety Priorities.
He said current estimates are that anywhere from 2 percent to 20 percent of annual traffic deaths were caused by driver drowsiness or fatigue. […]
Girl, 4, told by police not to cycle on the pavement
Cycling Weekly
4/10/15
[…] The parents of a four-year-old girl, who was told by police that she couldn’t ride her bike on the pavement, have described the officer’s reasoning as ‘daft’. […]
NBC San Diego
3/10/15
[…] The San Diego City Council is set to consider Tuesday whether to take state lands by eminent domain in order to build a sidewalk on a dangerous stretch of road in the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa area. […]
USA Today
3/9/15
[…] In Princeton, N.J., a plan to put in a new protected bike lane was tabled, much to the relief of residents who would have seen parking spaces cut down. More than 1,000 parking spaces have been eliminated over the last four years in Seattle, with more spaces slated to be lost as construction begins on new bike lanes. […]
NHTSA February 2015
[…] on-scene information about the events and associated factors leading up to crashes involving light vehicles. Several facets of crash occurrence were investigated during data collection, namely the precrash movement, critical pre-crash event, critical reason, and the associated factors. A weighted sample of 5,470 crashes was investigated over a period of two and a half years, which represents an estimated 2,189,000 crashes nationwide. About 4,031,000 vehicles, 3,945,000 drivers, and 1,982,000 passengers were estimated to have been involved in these crashes. The critical reason, which is the last event in the crash causal chain, was assigned to the driver in 94 percent (±2.2%)† of the crashes. In about 2 percent (±0.7%) of the crashes, the critical reason was assigned to a vehicle component’s failure or degradation, and in 2 percent (±1.3%) of crashes, it was attributed to the environment (slick roads, weather, etc.). Among an estimated 2,046,000 drivers who were assigned critical reasons, recognition errors accounted for about 41 percent (±2.1%), decision errors 33 percent (±3.7%), and performance errors 11 percent (±2.7%) of the crashes. […]
Claims Journal
3/4/2015
[…] Just two days after a 75-vehicle pileup injured at least 17 people in the state, lawmakers in Maine are considering legislation that would allow adults to opt out of wearing seatbelts. […]
