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Road Safety Strategy Offers Hope for Redesign of Philadelphia’s ‘Corridor of Death’

Just one more step and the stroller would have been on the curb. The thought haunts Latanya Byrd years after a driver racing down Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia struck and killed her 27-year-old niece, Samara Banks, and three of Banks’ …

Traffic Deaths Up 10.5% in First Three Months of 2021

New data shows a sustained increase in U.S. traffic deaths that regulators ascribe to impaired driving, speeding, a failure to wear seats beats and other unsafe behavior since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration …

Number of Traffic Deaths in Minnesota Up from Last Year

Traffic deaths in Minnesota in 2015 have surpassed last year’s totals. With a month left to go in the year, preliminary numbers from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Office of Traffic Safety show 365 people have died so far …