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Lowering speed limits in Seattle led to a 17-percent drop in crashes with injuries.

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Drivers in the United States struck and killed 3,434 people in the first half of 2022—up 5%, or 168 more deaths, from the same period the year before, according to a new analysis from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA). This projection follows a 40-year high in pedestrian deaths in...

New data shows continued growth in pedestrian road deaths in most U.S. states.

Pedestrian deaths hit a 40-year high in 2021, and numbers for the first half of 2022 were up about 5% over the same period in 2021, according to a new Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) analysis.

Q: I appreciate your appeal to people to improve safe driving behaviors but the framing about human error implied that it is the sole reason for traffic fatalities. Was that your intention? If so, this doesn’t fit with what I am hearing from the NTSB, USDOT or WSDOT about the Safe System Approach. What about the responsibility of road designers and builders, vehicle manufacturers and emergency responders?

Officially, the number of people we are told that die every year on South African roads is around 16 000. The Medical Research Council says their number is a bit different, it’s closer to 25 000. Yet, even if we work on 16 000, this is the equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every 10

The new Caltrans work zone safety mascot “Safety Sam will share the message of public safety awareness to protect highway workers throughout the state.

The California Department of Transportation and the California Office of Traffic Safety unveiled Monday Safety Sam as their new safety cone mascot.