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Behind Post-Crash Care, Real People Work to Save Lives
In a transportation system that takes automobile deaths and injuries for granted, what is the impact on emergency medical workers?
Christian Frommelt
June 8, 2025
Alarming Report Shows that Two Auto-Braking Systems Can’t See People in Reflective Garb
The safety strips are useless in the eyes of automatic braking systems on two very popular car models.
January 9, 2025
‘Stars On Cars’ Rating System Will Finally Grade How Safe Vehicles Are For People Their Drivers Hit
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has finally changed the nation's consumer safety rating system for new automobiles to accommodate vulnerable road users.
November 19, 2024
Why America Has So Much Road Safety Research, But So Little Actual Safety
Why does all this research not translating into solid guidance that actually saves lives?
October 23, 2024
Opinion: Federal Plan to Make Cars Safer for Pedestrians is a Great Start
The author of a book on the pedestrian death crisis weighs in on new federal car standards to protect walkers.
September 10, 2024
Walk this Way: Feds Finally Want Car Safety Standards to Apply to People Outside the Vehicle
In the midst of a two-decade rise, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed new rules to "reduce fatalities among pedestrians."
September 10, 2024
Q&A: Tell Congress to Require Female Crash Test Dummies
Drive US Forward's Maria Weston Kuhn on a bipartisan bill in Washington would require new cars undergo crash testing with dummies modeled after female bodies.
August 14, 2024
What If We Treated Car Crash Sites Like Disaster Zones?
What if our number one concern after a car crash wasn't getting traffic moving again, but making the road safer so no one else gets hurt?
August 5, 2024
Talking Headways Podcast: Narrow the Lanes!
At 30 to 35 miles per hour, research shows that 12- and 11-feet-wide lanes have significantly higher number of crashes than 10- or nine-feet-wide lanes.
January 4, 2024
Why Public Health Officials Must Play a Central Role in Traffic Safety
A new study proposes public health officials and planners treat traffic violence as an epidemiological problem.
The post Why Public Health Officials Must Play a Central Role in Traffic Safety appeared first on Streetsblog USA.
August 28, 2023
