By Gary Biller, NMA President Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in June 2022 as E-Newsletter #699. If you would like to subscribe to the NMA’s weekly one-topic newsletter, click here. Recently, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued its estimate of 2021 U.S. traffic fatalities. A Reuters headline blared, “U.S. traffic fatalities surge 10.5% in […]
58 Blog Posts From the road safety Tag
Countering the Safe Streets/Vision Zero Mindset
October 7, 2022 • 0 Comments • DUI, ITE, NHTSA, NMA, road safety, Safe Streets, Speed Limits, SPEEDING, Traffic Fatalities, VISION ZERO, VMT
Highway Deaths in Rural America: NMA E-Newsletter #714
September 19, 2022 • 0 Comments • Bicyclist, DISTRACTED DRIVING, Driver Courtesy, DRIVER EDUCATION, Driver's License, GHSA, Mass Transit, Motorcycle, NHTSA, NMA, PEDESTRIAN, road safety, SEAT BELT, SPEEDING, traffic safety
The Governor’s Highway Safety Association (GHSA) released a study called America’s Rural Roads: Beautiful and Deadly earlier this month. Researchers found that between 2016 and 2020, 40 percent of US traffic deaths occurred on rural roads. A total of 85,002 people died in rural areas during the five-year study period—nearly half of all traffic deaths across the country. This […]
How Driving Age and Norms Vary Throughout the World
• August 30, 2022 • 0 Comments • Car Care, DRIVER EDUCATION, Driver's License, NHTSA, road safety, Speed Limits, Tips, Traffic Congestion
At what age are you able to receive your driver’s license? What might it look like to drive on a road in another part of the world? How do people drive, and how does it vary from our own experience here in the United States? The laws and traffic regulations surrounding driving throughout the world […]
Retesting All Drivers–Make the Roads Safer!
July 27, 2022 • 0 Comments • Bicyclist, CELL PHONE, DISTRACTED DRIVING, Driver's License, DUI/DWI, INSURANCE, PEDESTRIAN, Road Rage, road safety, SAFETY, Senior Drivers
By Lauren Fix, The Car Coach Unless you’re never near a road, then this affects you! More people are driving now than ever in history, even with the rising cost of vehicles and gas prices. There are more crashes, more fatalities, more dangerous maneuvers, more road rage, more of all the bad things that come […]
The USDOT, Speed Cameras, and Automated Corruption
June 10, 2022 • 0 Comments • Automated Camera Tickets, Automated Traffic Enforcement, Corruption, Driver's License, LEGISLATION, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, road safety, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA, Traffic Tickets
By Gary Biller, NMA President Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on February 13, 2022, as a NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #683. It didn’t take long after Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Transportation Secretary, introduced his department’s 42-page National Roadway Safety Strategy for people to grasp the importance of a tiny sentence buried in Note 3 on Page 28 of […]
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