The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced winning vehicles for this year’s Top Safety Pick. Good news for drivers: at 115, the number of winners is greater than ever this year. The award recognizes vehicles that do the best job …
States should ban all driver use of cell phones and other portable electronic devices, except in emergencies, the National Transportation Board said Tuesday. The recommendation, unanimously agreed to by the five-member board, applies to both hands-free and hand-held phones and …
Male pedestrians are more likely to be struck and killed than females on New Jersey roads. That’s one of the findings in the 2011 Pedestrian Safety Tracking Report conducted by the Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University. The study analyzed …
New York City Department of Transportation announced on Tuesday a new traffic safety campaign called “Curbside Haiku.” The department is installing 216 signs featuring colorful artwork and haiku poems at high-crash locations near cultural institutions and schools citywide. “We’re putting …
Officials in Gainesville, Florida have a message for residents and visitors. Please stop stealing stop signs. Since Jan. 1, the city has replaced 52 stops signs taken from 14 locations around the city. Officials say one location has been hit …
Some South Florida officials say it’s becoming too costly to use automatic cameras to ticket drivers who run red lights. They had hoped their cities would collect millions of dollars in fines, thanks to the images captured by a network …
