Tests Expose Weakness of Trucks’ Underride Guards
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety(ARLINGTON, Va.) — What are your chances of surviving a rear-end collision with a modern semi-trailer truck if you’re driving a passenger car? Not bad, according to new tests conducted by the Insurance Insti…
Fatal Car Crashes More Likely on Thanksgiving
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Thanksgiving was the deadliest holiday in 2010, according to the most recent data available from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That year, 431 people died on the roads nationwide, compared …
Traffic Fatalities Soar During First Half of 2012
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Many more people were killed on the nation’s roadways during the first six months of this year than the same period in 2011.This 9 percent increase in traffic deaths from 14,950 to 16,290 represents the biggest…
Report: Safest City for Driving Is Sioux Falls, South Dakota
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — What’s the safest city to take your new car out for a spin? That would be Sioux Falls, S.D., which Allstate Insurance Co. proclaimed as ”America’s Safest Driving City” for the fifth year in a …
Report: Safest City for Driving Is Sioux Falls, South Dakota
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — What’s the safest city to take your new car out for a spin? That would be Sioux Falls, S.D., which Allstate Insurance Co. proclaimed as ”America’s Safest Driving City” for the fifth year in a …
Auto Crash-Avoidance Technology Found to Reduce Collisions
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans will be traveling this week, making the Fourth of July the nation’s most dangerous holiday on the highway. And new technologies could not only be protecting Americans from accidents, but a…
Fatal Car Crashes Rise on Tax Day, Study Finds
Hemera/Thinkstock(TORONTO) — If you’re waiting until the last possible day to file your taxes, you might want to walk to the post office instead of driving there. But even that won’t guarantee you’ll be safe.Research from a University of Toronto…
Girlfriend’s Final Texts a Warning on Distracted Driving
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(QUEBEC, Canada) — A young Canadian man is hoping the heart-wrenching final text message conversation he had with his girlfriend before she died can serve as a reminder of the dangers of distracted driving.Mathieu Fortin has post…
Pot Smoking Raises Risk of Fatal Car Crashes
iStockPhoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Driving after smoking pot can double a person’s risk of being in a serious or fatal car crash, according to a review of studies published Thursday in the British Medical Journal.While it may seem like the revie…