Some worrying research has emerged about the way that drivers are consciously being careless, or worse, about the safety of bicyclists.

Research:
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Some worrying research has emerged about the way that drivers are consciously being careless, or worse, about the safety of bicyclists.
Research:
Continue reading “Are drivers ‘dehumanizing’ bicycle riders around the world?”People with children know how much their little ones like to emulate the things that parents do, whether it is an older sister trying to mother her younger siblings or a son playing ball with his daddy.
For better or for worse, children also faithfully copy what they see their parents do on the roads, whether this is in a vehicle or as pedestrians (and this is research, incidentally, not just our opinion).
Continue reading “Parents Can Dramatically Affect Their Children’s Future Safety by the Example they Set”It is effectively inevitable that road safety advocates will use air crash data to try to get people to understand the staggering seriousness of road crashes when compared to commercial plane crashes, but even then the true scale is rarely stated.
There’s a new report out from the Governors’ Highway Safety Association [GHSA] regarding major increases in the numbers of pedestrians being killed on the roads of the USA, and one of the reasons given for this very regrettable situation is the involvement of pick-up trucks and SUVs.
Continue reading “Drivers in Pick-up Trucks or SUVs are More Likely to Kill Pedestrians”
Vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death for UN staff worldwide, but sadly that can be no surprise because the same tragic scenario often applies to soldiers, even within actual conflict zones. And work-related driving (fleet safety) is in a similar category.
It has become common or perhaps just fashionable in recent years for some traffic safety academics to decry driver training around the world as something that does not work. This frankly is a preposterous belief and a new United Nations report clearly indicates this.
Continue reading “The Need for Quality Driver Training, Even by the U.N.”
If all sections of the autobahn system were subjected to the usual German speed limit for such roads, 140 lives would be saved each year.
Continue reading “The Myth About Speeding Being Safe on Autobahns is Blown”
It is human nature that if we consider it at all, we tend to think only about ourselves when it comes to highway safety, primarily the chances of us or our loved ones being killed or seriously injured in a car crash. But pedestrians represent about one in six of all people killed on America’s roads and we are all pedestrians at times.
Continue reading “Far Too Many Pedestrian Deaths on the Roads of the USA, 2018”