Articles for Traffic Deaths

Forget helmets, focus on the real causes of traffic deaths
6 months ago

Forget helmets, focus on the real causes of traffic deaths

Dutch News  

People should look further than making helmets compulsory for cyclists when examining the causes of traffic deaths, says Marijke Brouwer-Poelgeest, from victim support charity Fonds Slachtofferhulp. Although electric bikes encourage people to leave the car at home more often, and enable older people to continue cycling, they have also spawned a plethora of e-bike variants, the fatbike among them. These …

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Forget helmets, focus on the real causes of traffic deaths
6 months ago

Forget helmets, focus on the real causes of traffic deaths

Dutch News  

People should look further than making helmets compulsory for cyclists when examining the causes of traffic deaths, says Marijke Brouwer-Poelgeest, from victim support charity Fonds Slachtofferhulp. Although electric bikes encourage people to leave the car at home more often, and enable older people to continue cycling, they have also spawned a plethora of e-bike variants, the fatbike among them. These …

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L.A. County wants zero traffic deaths — but won’t fund safe streets, advocates say
6 months, 4 weeks ago

L.A. County wants zero traffic deaths — but won’t fund safe streets, advocates say

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record. “We’re all feeling the pain,” said L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn at a budget hearing last week, the morning after Gov. “The funding for L.A. County’s Vision Zero Program as it currently stands is almost, to me, at an irreducible minimum,” said Damian Kevitt, executive director of Streets Are For Everyone, …

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US traffic deaths fell 3.6% in 2023, the 2nd straight yearly drop. But nearly 41,000 people died
8 months, 3 weeks ago

US traffic deaths fell 3.6% in 2023, the 2nd straight yearly drop. But nearly 41,000 people died

Associated Press  

DETROIT — U.S. traffic deaths fell 3.6% last year, but still, almost 41,000 people were killed on the nation’s roadways, according to full-year estimates by safety regulators. NHTSA Deputy Administrator Sophie Shulman said that traffic deaths declined in the fourth quarter of last year, marking the seventh straight quarterly drop that started with the second quarter of 2022. The death …

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A New Jersey city that limited street parking hasn’t had a traffic death in 7 years
9 months, 3 weeks ago

A New Jersey city that limited street parking hasn’t had a traffic death in 7 years

Associated Press  

Street parking was already scarce in Hoboken, New Jersey, when the death of an elderly pedestrian spurred city leaders to remove even more spaces in a bid to end traffic fatalities. We’ve created a program where we’re layering these things in year after year.” Pedestrians cross the street at the intersection of Washington and 5th in Hoboken, N.J., Thursday, Feb. …

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Speed cameras: California’s answer to rising traffic deaths?
1 year, 2 months ago

Speed cameras: California’s answer to rising traffic deaths?

LA Times  

Curtis A. Townsend Sr., husband of Trina Newman-Townsend, a retired minister, mother and grandmother, stands at a mural in honor of his late wife near where she was killed in 2022 by a speeding driver on Christmas Eve in South Los Angeles, CA. “Too many families are being torn apart.” Callie Harvey, daughter of Trina Newman-Townsend, a retired minister, mother …

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San Francisco and L.A. failed to reduce pedestrian deaths. One girl’s killing shows why
1 year, 3 months ago

San Francisco and L.A. failed to reduce pedestrian deaths. One girl’s killing shows why

LA Times  

Parents and children hold signs at an Aug. 22 rally in San Francisco, one week after a crash that killed a 4-year-old girl in a crosswalk prompted advocates to question the city’s street safety efforts. On average, 30 people die and more than 500 are severely injured in the city’s streets each year, leaving San Francisco far from reaching Vision …

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How can L.A. stop traffic deaths? Let civilians enforce traffic violations, study says
1 year, 7 months ago

How can L.A. stop traffic deaths? Let civilians enforce traffic violations, study says

LA Times  

LAPD officers search a vehicle in 2015. At the same time, the city should consider “means-based” fee models — such as vouchers to repair broken taillights — for traffic violators, measures that “advance traffic safety objectives and do not perpetuate enforcement disparities.” From the chronic problem of people running stop signs to a rise in sideshows that occasionally lead to …

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US traffic deaths drop slightly in 2022 but still a ‘crisis’
1 year, 8 months ago

US traffic deaths drop slightly in 2022 but still a ‘crisis’

Associated Press  

DETROIT — The number of people killed on U.S. roadways decreased slightly last year, but government officials said the 42,795 people who died is still a national crisis. “We continue to face a national crisis of traffic deaths on our roadways, and everyone has a role to play in reversing the rise that we experienced in recent years,” Transportation Secretary …

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Traffic violence continues to surge in L.A. Why can’t (or won’t) we make streets safer?
1 year, 11 months ago

Traffic violence continues to surge in L.A. Why can’t (or won’t) we make streets safer?

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. New York City, with more than double L.A.’s population, not only had fewer traffic deaths per capita last year, but also fewer deaths overall than L.A. — 247, according to that city’s data. “Nearly 10% of all traffic deaths nationwide occur in California,” said Tim Wiesberg, a spokesperson for the state’s …

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L.A. traffic deaths rose in 2022, surpassing 300 fatalities for first time in two decades
1 year, 11 months ago

L.A. traffic deaths rose in 2022, surpassing 300 fatalities for first time in two decades

LA Times  

Traffic safety advocates hold a “die-in” in front of L.A. City Hall on Dec. 3, 2019, to protest the city’s lack of progress on Vision Zero, a program created by Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2015 that aims to eliminate traffic deaths on city streets by 2025. Traffic deaths climbed again in Los Angeles last year, with 300 people killed on …

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Hyderabad traffic police look to curb wrong-side driving, triple-riding
2 years, 1 month ago

Hyderabad traffic police look to curb wrong-side driving, triple-riding

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The traffic police are planning to start safety drives to prevent wrong-side driving and overloading of vehicles from Monday, to curb the number of accidents and on-road fatalities. According to the data shared by the Hyderabad Traffic Police, a total of 23 deaths were recorded due to negligent driving up to October 31 in 2022. Fifteen of the deaths …

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Safe-driving campaigns don’t work nearly as much as we need them to. It’s time to spend the money better.
2 years, 6 months ago

Safe-driving campaigns don’t work nearly as much as we need them to. It’s time to spend the money better.

Slate  

There’s a woman wearing all white who’s been spotted around Maryland, offering advice to strangers. In a 2020 ranking of traffic safety tactics, the federal National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave pedestrian safety education—which Signal Woman enthusiastically dispenses—one star out of five, reflecting “limited or no high-quality evaluation evidence.” Signal Woman personifies the education campaign, a centerpiece of American traffic …

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Nitin Gadkari is right! India can reduce its road accident deaths by 50%: Here’s how
2 years, 6 months ago

Nitin Gadkari is right! India can reduce its road accident deaths by 50%: Here’s how

Firstpost  

India, despite just 1 per cent of global motor vehicles, accounts for more than 10 per cent of all road traffic deaths globally. A country that has only 1 per cent of global motor vehicles accounts for more than 10 per cent of all road traffic deaths globally. This is where we can say hello to a ‘Safe System Approach’ …

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Editorial: Yes, deadly streets are a national crisis. But we can fix them
2 years, 10 months ago

Editorial: Yes, deadly streets are a national crisis. But we can fix them

LA Times  

Caitlin Harrison, left, and Kendall Day bring flowers to a makeshift memorial for veteran actor Orson Bean, who was hit and killed by a car in Venice in February 2020. Calling the rising number of traffic deaths in the United States a preventable crisis, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced last week a new national strategy to make the streets safer …

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Pete Buttigieg on the Department of Transportation’s National Roadway Safety Strategy and how to get traffic deaths to zero.
2 years, 10 months ago

Pete Buttigieg on the Department of Transportation’s National Roadway Safety Strategy and how to get traffic deaths to zero.

Slate  

Two weeks ago, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg hosted an impromptu Twitter Q&A while flying from California back to Washington. Well, I think a lot of it begins in how we establish our goals, and that’s part of what I’m most excited about in this National Roadway Safety Strategy. I didn’t see it in the roadway safety strategy, but could we …

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Hundreds died in L.A. traffic crashes in 2021. Is Vision Zero a failure?
2 years, 11 months ago

Hundreds died in L.A. traffic crashes in 2021. Is Vision Zero a failure?

LA Times  

Traffic safety advocates hold a “die-in” on the steps of L.A. City Hall in 2019 to protest the city’s lack of progress on Vision Zero, a program created by Mayor Eric Garcetti to eliminate traffic deaths on city streets by 2025. The numbers frustrate transportation advocates, who’ve long argued that Vision Zero — a program to end traffic deaths unveiled …

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Big four Dutch cities want lower speed limits to cut road deaths
3 years ago

Big four Dutch cities want lower speed limits to cut road deaths

Dutch News  

Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht have written to parliament and the cabinet calling for a reduction of maximum speeds on most urban roads to 30 kph, the Parool reported on Wednesday. Around half the roads in the four cities already have a 30 kph speed limit but more, officials say, needs to be done. Amsterdam’s traffic chief Egbert de …

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India loses 1.5 lakh lives due to road accidents every year; here is how most of them can be saved
3 years, 2 months ago

India loses 1.5 lakh lives due to road accidents every year; here is how most of them can be saved

Firstpost  

While India accounts for about 1% of motor vehicles globally, it records more than 11% of road traffic deaths Every year, the lives of 1.3 million people are cut short due to road accidents. While India accounts for about 1 percent of motor vehicles globally, it records more than 11 percent of road traffic deaths. While implementation of the Motor …

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