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Safety organizations partner to combat the top cause of accidents with injuries on Staten Island: Distracted driving

Safety organizations partner to combat the top cause of accidents with injuries on Staten Island: Distracted driving Posted Apr 23, 2021 The Governors Highway Safety Association has partnered with StopDistractions.org to encourage states to adopt stricter distracted driving laws, as deaths involving distracted driving crashes continue to rise across the country. (Joshua Gunter/The Plain Dealer)The Plain Dealer Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. As distracted driving continues to cause injury and death across the country, and here on Staten Island, two safety organizations have come together, urging states to enhance their efforts to combat the dangerous driving behavior.

Hoboken, New Jersey, Has Recorded Zero Traffic Deaths for Three Years Straight

The Manhattan skyline visible from Hoboken, NJ, which is becoming a walker s (and biker s and scoot-er s) paradise. (Photo by Shinya Suzuki / CC BY-ND 2.0) Walking is good exercise; it’s literally the first step on the road to better health. But it’s also more dangerous than it ought to be if crossing streets or roads is involved. According to a national highway safety organization, it looks like the pedestrian death rate on the nation’s roads is on track to set an all-time record in 2020 despite or perhaps because of the drop in vehicle miles traveled. One reason for the seemingly paradoxical statistic: Those drivers still on the roads are traveling on them faster, which makes the roads more deadly for pedestrians. The fix for this problem is simple: slow the cars down. Hoboken, N.J., has done that as part of its overall “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate pedestrian and bicyclist deaths on its streets, and it’s worked: The city hasn’t had a traffic death of any kind

Though the pandemic curtailed vehicle travel, pedestrian fatalities skyrocketed | Patrick Malone & Associates P C | DC Injury Lawyers

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Although Americans drove far fewer miles in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the pedestrian death rate skyrocketed nationally, with blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans dying in disproportionate numbers when struck by motorists. Preliminary data from the first half of last year shows that roughly the same number of pedestrian deaths occurred 3,000 or so. But those fatalities happened when the nation recorded a more than 16% decline in vehicle miles traveled. And the deaths in 2020 continued an ugly, decade-long trend in which pedestrian killings increased 46%, compared with a 5% increase in the same period for other vehicular fatalities. The Governors Highway Safety Association reported the sobering data and observed this:

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