Motor Vehicle Accidents

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, a division of the Department of Labor, will run a national media campaign in an effort to inform drivers about “the dangers of illegally passing stopped school buses.” According to a news release by the agency, the campaign will run through the end of October.  As the news release […]

A recent report by NBC News examines the tragic and growing toll of “frontover” and “backover” crashes, in which a vehicle—usually a large vehicle like an SUV or pickup truck—drive over young children in their blind zones. As the report explains, data suggests that as many as 744 children were killed in such crashes between […]

Last week the Federal Highway Administration, a division of the US Department of Transportation, announced the allocation of $59 billion in grant funding to improve infrastructure at railway crossings in four states: California, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. According to a FHWA press release, the funding is intended “to help save lives with safer crossings.” […]

The United States is still in a traffic violence crisis, according to recently released traffic fatalities data by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a division of the US Department of Transportation. The agency’s preliminary estimates for the first half of 2021 show that approximately “20,175 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes, an increase […]

The National Transportation Safety Board has released a call for automotive regulators to require the inclusion alcohol impairment detection systems in all newly manufactured vehicles. According to a press release by the agency, the call resulted from an NTSB investigation into a January 2021 crash in Avenal, California, in which the driver was impaired and […]

The National Association of City Transportation Officials has written a letter to automotive regulators voicing its opposition to requests by Ford and GM temporary exemptions from federal safety standards governing self-driving cars. If granted, the exemptions would allow the manufacturers “to deploy a limited number of self-driving vehicles without human controls or functions on US […]

Recent tests by Swiss insurance company AXA Switzerland highlight the dangers of electric vehicles.  As an analysis by Streetsblog explains, the company’s research found that electric cars “cause more damage in collisions than conventional cars” and that their larger size increases the risks they pose, both to pedestrians and to occupants in lighter vehicles. “[D]rivers […]