Car crashes
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Stats Show Black and Indigenous People Suffer Disproportionate Road Deaths
The U.S. is still failing to make meaningful progress to end the decades-long racial disparity in fatal car crash rates across modes, a new study finds — and things got worse during the pandemic.
June 23, 2021
STUDY: U.S. Not Doing Enough To Stop Stoned Driving (or to Boost Transit)
Car crashes rose in Western states after the legalization of pot, a pair of new studies finds — but increasing access to transit may be the only sure-fire way to rein in stoned driving, especially without increasing police harassment of people of color.
June 22, 2021
Road Rage Shootings Are On a Terrifying Rise
Aggressive driving isn’t the only deadly behavior on the rise on American roads — because raging U.S. motorists are killing more people with guns than any point in recent history, too.
June 15, 2021
Study: Complete Streets Lead to Better Crash Coverage
Complete streets policies don't just reduce car crashes — they may even improve how those crashes are covered by the media, a study shows.
June 9, 2021
How Cities Should Analyze Crashes that Kill Peds
A team of advocates has produced what may be the most comprehensive report on crashes that kill pedestrians — and it’s prompting a call for a similar approach to be adopted across the country.
May 19, 2021
Not a Coincidence: Maryland Couple Dies on Same Dangerous Road Five Years Apart
The death raises questions about why even Vision Zero cities so often fail to adequately redesign streets that repeatedly prove fatal to walkers.
May 12, 2021
What is ‘Traffic Violence’ and Why Do We Need To Talk About It?
We were all raised in car culture — which normalizes the idea that 40,000 people will die in car crashes every year. But it's not normal. And it needs to be called what it is.
May 3, 2021
Regulators Could Have Prevented Fatal Tesla Crash
Two Tesla passengers are dead, partly because the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ignored calls from the National Transportation Safety Board to require automakers to implement safe driver monitoring technology in "driverless" vehicles.
April 19, 2021
D.C. Cyclist Jim Pagels Killed by Driver Hours After Tweeting About Unsafe Roads
Grieving friends of a D.C. cyclist who was killed by a driver are fighting for his death to become a catalyst for safe street reforms in the capital and nationwide — just like he would have wanted.
April 13, 2021
Why Motorcycle Companies Are Betting on E-Bikes
America's best-known motorcycle brand is now selling e-bikes — reigniting a conversation about the changing role of automotive options beyond cars on U.S. roadways.
April 12, 2021
