Recent Streetsblog USA posts about traffic safety

Chicago Seeks to Remove "Accidents" From Muni Code

By John Greenfield | Apr 5, 2021 | No Comments

It's common to refer to serious crashes as "accidents," implying they're unavoidable, when it's actually possible to reduce crashes through better roadway design and public policy.

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OPINION: Treat Traffic Violence as an Epidemic

By Tali Farhadian Weinstein | Mar 8, 2021 | No Comments

Manhattan district attorney hopeful Tali Farhadian Weinstein looks to driver-accountability law, technology to curtail reckless drivers.

Joan Claybrook's official portrait for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Source: NHTSA.

'The Auto Industry Went Beserk' Says Ex-NHTSA Head

By Kea Wilson | Oct 16, 2020 | No Comments

The first woman head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reflects on her successes — retractable stop signs on buses, mandatory crash test standards, airbags and the end of hood ornaments, for instance — and the construct battle against auto makers.

What ‘Abolish the Police’ Could Mean for Street Safety

By Kea Wilson | Jun 22, 2020 | No Comments

What does #defundthepolice really mean for road safety — in the broadest sense of that term?

Making vehicles less deadly for walkers isn't just a matter of techy pedestrian detection systems like these. It's also a matter of simply making them smaller, lighter and slower. Source: Government Accountability Office.

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Vehicle Safety Assessments Don’t Protect Pedestrians

By Kea Wilson | Apr 28, 2020 | No Comments

Federal regulators have failed to consider safety of pedestrians in their vehicle safety standards for far too long— and now the Government Accountability Office is calling them out.

The Second Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety. Via Creative Commons.

U.S. Breaks With World on Pact to Cut Road Deaths

By Kea Wilson | Feb 24, 2020 | No Comments

American delegates distanced themselves from key elements of a global safety pledge that would halve road deaths in 10 years.

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