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January 8, 2020
Op-Ed: Hey, Reporters, Stop Blaming Crashes on the Victims
A new academic paper argues that a shift away from the victim-blaming of most news coverage of traffic crashes involving pedestrians could improve the lackluster policy debate around vehicle violence.
November 18, 2019
Tributes Pour in for Matt Travis — Pro Wrestler and Cyclist Killed by Hit-and-Run Trucker
November 10, 2019
Report: Drivers Get More Protection — The Rest of Us Get Slaughtered
Fatal car crashes are down for the second straight year across the nation — but the number of pedestrians and cyclists killed by motorists are up again, further evidence that cars are getting safer only for people inside the vehicle.
October 22, 2019
Experts: Feds Aren’t Fixing Pedestrian Safety Crisis
Federal officials are failing to protect pedestrians — and, in fact, err on the side of drivers and even blame walkers for a pedestrian death toll has increased 50 percent in just eight years, advocates say.
October 12, 2018
A Hit-and-Run Driver Killed 5 People on Bikes, So the Press Lectured Cyclists
A hit-and-run driver killed five people on a group bike ride in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Tuesday. Four others were seriously injured in the horrifying crash, caused when a driver hit their training group -- known as "the Chain Gang" -- from behind.
June 9, 2016
Confounded by Spike in U.S. Traffic Deaths and Injuries? Look Around
Traffic fatalities in the U.S. increased by 14 percent through June of this year compared to the first six months of 2014, and serious injuries jumped by 30 percent, according to the National Safety Council [PDF]. At the current rate, the group says, nationwide road deaths would top 40,000 for the first time since 2007.
August 18, 2015
Meet a Police Chief Who Actually Says Reckless Driving Won’t Be Tolerated
If only more police officials took dangerous driving as seriously as Frank Koss, chief of police in Hinesburg, Vermont. An outraged Koss took to the pages of his local paper this week after a 17-year-old driver killed a local cyclist, saying "this was not an accident."
May 22, 2015
Driver Who Killed Cyclist Sues the Dead Teen’s Parents
In a case the Ottawa Citizen called "astonishing evidence of the raw appeal of... victimhood," a woman who struck and killed a teenage boy riding his bike outside of Toronto is suing the boy's family for $1.35 million.
April 28, 2014
Map: Where Buffalo Drivers Smash Into Buildings (Hint: Everywhere)
Cynthia Van Ness, a librarian and host of BuffaloResearch.com, put together the above map, showing the nearly 150 sites where drivers crashed into buildings in the Buffalo region and made the news since 2006.
February 10, 2014