Category: auto safety

Analysis of Passing Distances between Bicycles and Motorized Vehicles on Urban Arterials

Analysis of Passing Distances between Bicycles and Motorized Vehicles on Urban Arterials

Mehta, Kushal
From University of Waterloo Library
Date: 2015-01-21 (submitted on: 2015-01-20)

[…] Several US states and Canadian Provinces have introduced, or (as is the case in Ontario) are considering, legislation requiring that motorists provide a minimum of one meter of lateral clearance when overtaking and passing a cyclist. […] The model shows that the proportion of passing maneuvers that are unsafe increases as traffic demand increases, the distance between consecutive traffic signals becomes shorter, and traffic signal cycle lengths become longer. […]

Cars With Faulty Airbags Are Recalled Second Time, but Fix May Take a Year

Cars With Faulty Airbags Are Recalled Second Time, but Fix May Take a Year

New York Times
January 31, 2015

[…] Toyota, Chrysler and Honda are recalling about 2.1 million vehicles with airbags that might suddenly deploy even when the vehicle is not in a crash after earlier recalls did not sufficiently address the problem. Federal regulators said replacement parts might not be fully available until the end of the year. […]

DOT Secretary Fox Announces New Biking/Walking Safety Initiative

DOT Secretary Fox Announces New Biking/Walking Safety Initiative

USDOT Pedestrian Forum Winter 2015

[…] Injuries and fatalities of pedestrians and bicyclists have increased since 2009. New safety initiative will promote design improvements to ensure safe and efficient routes for pedestrians and bicyclists, promote behavioral safety, and provide educational information to help individuals make safer travel choices. The initiative will also encourage vehicle safety by drawing on current crash avoidance technologies to alert motorists to the presence of bicyclists and pedestrians. […]

Tech advances lower chance that driver will die in car crash

Tech advances lower chance that driver will die in car crash

Denver Post
January 29, 2015

The chances of a driver dying in a crash in a late-model car or light truck fell by more than a third over three years, and nine car models had zero deaths per million registered vehicles, according to a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. […] Improved technologies were responsible for saving 7,700 driver lives in 2012 when compared to how cars were made in 1985, the institute said. […]

Honda says Houston death may be linked to faulty airbag

Honda says Houston death may be linked to faulty airbag

LA Times
January 29, 2015

[…] The automaker said Thursday it is looking into a crash of a 2002 Honda Accord on Jan. 18, in Houston. The driver’s side airbag inflator in the car may have ruptured, sending shrapnel into the cabin and killing the driver, who the company did not name. […]

Colorado Attorney Interviewed About Wyoming Bill Ordering Motorists Give Cyclists 3 Foot Space When Passing

Bill orders motorists to give cyclists 3 feet

Jackson Hole News & Guide
January 28, 2015

[…] Laws like these help on two fronts, said Denver attorney Jason Crawford, whose practice, Crawford Weiss LLC, specializes in cycling law.

“The first thing they help with is they engender knowledge among the driving public about what is safety around a cyclist,” Crawford said. […]

Collaborating for Safer Streets Around the World

Collaborating for Safer Streets Around the World

Department of Transportation USA
January 27, 2015
Mark Rosekind

Many Americans are familiar with NHTSA’s work to prevent deaths and injuries on America’s roads. Just last week at the DC Auto Show, for example, Secretary Foxx looked back at more than 50 years of lives saved –more than 600,000—by technology use, and he looked ahead at incorporating new technology to prevent crashes. But you might not know the degree to which we’ve worked to help other countries improve their roadway safety efforts and how their experiences are now informing our own work here in the U.S. […] READ MORE >>

Taskforce releases figures of unsafe HGV drivers stopped in London

Taskforce releases figures of unsafe HGV drivers stopped in London

Cycling Weekly
January 22, 2015

[…] More than 1,000 fixed penalty notices have been issued to unsafe HGV drivers in London as authorities seek to protect vulnerable road users.

With the rise in cycling in the capital, the number of cyclists killed in collisions with lorries and trucks continues to increase, with a 29-year-old woman the latest victim on Tuesday. […]