According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly 5,000 pedestrians and upwards of 700 bicyclists were killed in crashes with cars in 2014 alone. Unfortunately, California has frequently been listed as one of the most common places for fatalities to occur. Although pedestrian injuries have generally been on a downward trend for the past… Read More »
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Insurance Companies Argue That Distracted Driving is a Leading Cause in the Increase of Traffic Fatalities in 2015 and 2016
Unfortunately, far too many people are engaging in the dangerous behavior of not paying attention behind the wheel. Playing with smartphone applications like YouTube, email, Facebook or Pokémon Go while you’re sitting in rush hour traffic or travelling at high speeds is unfortunately all too common. Auto insurance officials are arguing that distracted driving… Read More »
New Sound Rule Designed to Minimize Pedestrian Injuries and Accidents
Minimizing the sounds made by a car might sound like a good thing until you factor in how that harms visually impaired individuals who rely on those sounds to determine how close they are to traffic and any moving car. A recent report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requires that hybrids and… Read More »
New Study Shows That Red Light Cameras Are Capable of Saving Children’s Lives
Red light cameras have formed an important purpose from the time they have been installed at many busy intersections. That reason has primarily been to deter people from running through red lights or engaging in other dangerous and negligent behavior at an intersection. Sometimes even the presence of a red light camera when it isn’t… Read More »
What is Motorcycle Lane Splitting?
Lane splitting is the practice of motorcyclists passing slower moving cars by riding in between them. Right now, California has taken a major step forward as far as officially allowing lane splitting. A new bill makes California the first state in the country to make lane splitting legal. The bill was prompted after a citizen’s… Read More »
Be Aware of Extra Accident Risk Around Daylight Savings Time
As we get ready to change the clocks on November 6th, the daylight savings time might actually cost you more than an extra hour or lost hour of sleep. According to some research out of the University of Colorado at Boulder, there is an increase in fatal motor vehicle accidents in the days surrounding the… Read More »
Study Shows That Distracted Driving Can Also Impact the Negligent Driver’s Stress Levels and the Body
Research out of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute has taken a different approach to the exploration of distracted driving by attempting to uncover how it influences the affected driver’s own personality, anxiety and physical response. It turns out that people get stressed out when attempting to accomplish several things at once which is certainly… Read More »
California’s Route 99 Named as the Most Dangerous Roadway in the United States
A new report released by Value Penguin indicates that Highway 99 in California is the most dangerous roadway across the entire country. That road saw more than 62 deadly crashes for every 100 miles of road. Despite the fact that this is a shorter highway than many others included in the study, the most fatal… Read More »
Is Air Pollution Contributing to Rising Numbers of Car Accidents?
A new research study from the London School of Economics indicates that after looking at 5 years of data when the air levels of nitrogen dioxide increased by just 1 microgram for each cubic meter, the number of vehicle collisions also increased by 2%. The researchers also adjusted for extra traffic and determined that the… Read More »
Drunken Driving Deaths All Too Common for States with Big Populations Like California
Research from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that individuals in a single driver crash are 3 times more likely to die when driving with a 0.08 blood alcohol content when compared with those drivers who have a 0% blood alcohol content. Those individuals who are driving behind the wheel of a car while… Read More »