Recent Streetsblog USA posts about NHTSA

Why U.S. Car Crash Reporting Is Broken

By Kea Wilson | Jul 20, 2021 | No Comments

Nearly a third of car crashes involving a vulnerable road user goes unreported in the nation's capital, skewing District crash totals that are critical to making changes — but advocates say that stunning stat is just the tip of a much larger national iceberg.

Road Death Rate Worse for Blacks, Indigenous People

By Kea Wilson | Jun 23, 2021 | No Comments

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.

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Road Rage Shootings Are On a Terrifying Rise

By Kea Wilson | Jun 15, 2021 | No Comments

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.

Regulators Aren't Taming U.S. Megacar Crisis

By Kea Wilson | Jun 4, 2021 | No Comments

Federal regulators have known about the inherent dangers that large vehicles pose to vulnerable road users since the mid-1970s, but have done almost nothing to stop it — and they probably won’t because of who we are as a nation, a new legal research paper argues.

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U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists: Report

By Aaron Short | May 26, 2021 | No Comments

The U.S. Department of Transportation has not set goals or tracked the performance of 90 traffic safety activities making it difficult to improve them or determining whether they work at all, a congressional watchdog found.

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New NHTSA Head Was at Center of Pollution Fight

By Melanie Curry | Jan 22, 2021 | No Comments

It's a strategic move that sends the unequivocal message that the new President is committed to incorporating environmental concerns in every corner of federal policy making.

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