According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), in the last five years more than 4,400 people died – and at least 200,000 others were injured – in work zone crashes across the country. Workers, drivers, and passengers alike face a variety of work zone-associated hazards, though the FHWA reports drivers as the most frequent fatalities.[…]
Researchers at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia recently conducted a study on front seat safety in crashes involving serious injuries or deaths of passengers aged six to 92 years old. The researchers found that improvements in design and technology for front seat passengers have tremendously improved the odds for[…]
Determining who to blame for an accident involving a self-driving car can be a challenge. It remains unclear in many states who should be held responsible when an autonomous car malfunctions or crashes. Should it be the vehicle’s owner or operator? Or should the manufacturer of the technology making self-driving cars possibly share the blame?[…]
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for American teenagers, with six adolescents between 16-and-19-years-old dying because of crash-related injuries each day. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), teen drivers are almost three-times as likely to be involved in a fatal crash as drivers who are 20-years-old or older.[…]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is worried – and for good reason: the number of fatal work zone crashes involving large trucks (as well as the number of large-truck-related fatalities in general) is on the rise. Automobile accidents are already the leading cause of death on the job as well as among certain[…]