Tag: traffic fatalities

Roadbuilding

Rising traffic fatalities in Maine prompt new safety plan

Due to an increase in traffic fatalities, the Maine Department of Transportation has released a new Strategic Highway Safety Plan. The plan sets out focus areas, such as lane departure, speeding, impaired driving, and recommends strategies to address them. “Maine’s traffic fatalities have been on the rise during the last three years after seeing improvement […]

February 2, 2018

Roadbuilding

New website designed to curb Miss. traffic deaths

A new website has been created to try to reduce the rising number of traffic fatalities in Mississippi, especially in work zones. The site, GoMDOT.com/DriveSmartMS, comes in response to a 14-percent increase in road deaths in the state during the past three years, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation. “MDOT has a goal of […]

January 29, 2018

Roadbuilding

Would dropping BAC to .05 reduce alcohol-related traffic deaths?

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine says it has a blueprint to solve the problem of deaths caused by drunken driving, including dropping the minimum legal intoxication level to .05 blood alcohol level. In its new report, “Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities: A Comprehensive Approach to a Persistent Problem,” the academy also […]

January 23, 2018

Roadbuilding

New York City achieves record low in traffic fatalities

For the fourth consecutive year, New York City has seen a drop in traffic fatalities, with 2017 marking the greatest percentage drop since recordkeeping began in 1910, according to the mayor’s office. Last year saw a 32-percent drop in pedestrian deaths, the steepest drop in the city’s history. In 2017, 214 people – 101 of […]

January 11, 2018

Roadbuilding

With aim of ending traffic deaths in next 30 years, USDOT and National Safety Council partner on Road to Zero initiative

Three U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) agencies and the National Safety Counil have teamed up to launch the Road to Zero coalition aimed at ending traffic fatalities on U.S. roads over the next 30 years. The department has committed $1 million per year for the next three years for grants to groups working on “lifesaving” […]

October 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

US traffic fatalities up 14% in first 6 months of 2015

New data from the National Safety Council reveals that the number of motor vehicles deaths in America are up 14 percent through the first six months of 2015. That’s a jump of 18,630 deaths compared to 2014. On top of that, injuries from traffic accidents are up by more than 30 percent compared to last year. “As […]

August 24, 2015

Roadbuilding

Texas sees more traffic deaths in construction work zones than any other state

The National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse has released the latest data tally of deaths in motor vehicle traffic crashes in construction work zones, broken down by state. Of 32,719 traffic fatalities in 2013, 579 occurred in work zones. Texas topped the list, with 104 fatalities occurring in a work zone. The NWZSIC pulls the data from the […]

January 12, 2015

Roadbuilding

INFOGRAPHICS: TRIP report reveals America’s rural roads need improvements

America’s rural transportation system is in need of repairs and modernization to lower the number of deficient roads and bridges and crash rates and to improve connectivity and capacity, according to a report released today by transportation research group TRIP. The reports, “Rural Connections: Challenges and Opportunities in America’s Heartland,” looks at the percentages of […]

July 10, 2014

Roadbuilding

TRIP report finds Montana’s highways, bridges ‘increasingly deteriorated and crowded’

A new report finds that Montana’s highways and bridges are in poor and mediocre condition, with the state’s traffic fatality rate among the worst in the nation. Transportation research group TRIP on Wednesday released a report on Montana’s highway infrastructure, noting that the state’s roads and bridges have “increasingly deteriorated and crowded” and that the […]

February 19, 2014

Roadbuilding

Roads can be dangerous places for returning soldiers

Wars can deliver so many disturbing stories to those of us at home. This one from the Washington Post is something of a surprise. It confirms for us that we can try to build safe roads, but there are factors at work out there that we have no way to allow for. The story says […]

May 6, 2013

Roadbuilding

Fatalities for 16- and 17-year old drivers rising

It seems 16 and 17 year old drivers have been dying on the nation’s roads at an increasing rate in the past two years, after years of decreasing numbers. The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) reports that: Preliminary data indicate deaths of 16- and 17-year-old drivers are up 19 percent between the first six months […]

February 26, 2013

Roadbuilding

Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus

The Federal Highway Administration issued a report showing that the rate of driving fatalities per vehicle miles driven had fallen to the lowest number in decades.

June 3, 2011