traffic deaths
US DOT Promises National Safe Systems Approach After Historic Death Surge
The Department of Transportation is promising radical new changes to federal approach to roadway safety following a report that showed the largest six-month increase in roadway fatalities ever recorded by the agency.
November 1, 2021
OPINION: Treat Traffic Violence as an Epidemic
March 8, 2021
Joe Biden Becomes the First Traffic Violence Widower to Hold the U.S. Presidency
Joe Biden is president — the first one in U.S. history who's lost a child and a spouse to our national traffic violence epidemic.
January 20, 2021
Mexico’s ‘Right to Mobility’ Amendment Could Shift Road Safety Discourse and Save Thousands of Lives
"As valuable as this step is, it is just one step. The work to translate this right to mobility from principle to action is the crucial next phase."
November 4, 2020
D.C. Shows What To Do When Your Vision Zero Plan Is Failing
The nation's capital is failing to meet its Vision Zero goal — but it's not taking the loss lying down.
September 28, 2020
The Shocking Reason Why Some of the Most Dangerous Drivers Keep Their Licenses
A new short form documentary from the Boston Globe exposes how a loophole in the national driver's license compact is keeping drivers who have killed on U.S. roads.
August 19, 2020
What ‘Abolish the Police’ Could Mean for Street Safety
What does #defundthepolice really mean for road safety — in the broadest sense of that term?
June 22, 2020
Trump Says COVID-19 Deaths May Be the Price We Pay For A Strong Economy — Just Like Traffic Deaths
It's bad enough that most Americans think that 40,000 road deaths a year is just the price we pay for the freedom to go wherever we want whenever we want — but now that argument is being used by conservatives who want to abandon the health practices that can help us defeat the coronavirus.
March 24, 2020
U.S. Breaks With World on Pact to Cut Road Deaths
American delegates distanced themselves from key elements of a global safety pledge that would halve road deaths in 10 years.
February 24, 2020
Vision Zero is Missing Something Big: Getting Cars Off the Road
A leading transportation researcher argues for the addition of a sixth pillar to the five-part strategy.
February 21, 2020
