Car crashes
‘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.
Opinion: Yes, the GDP Rises When We Drive More. But That Isn’t A Good Thing.
Expensive hospital stays after car crashes, swelling healthcare spending on sedentary lifestyle diseases, and constant fuel consumption when residents have no choice but driving are all "good" for the national bottom line. But are they good for us?
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?
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
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."
What the Media Is Getting Wrong About the Gaudreau Brothers’ Deaths
It made national headlines when these two professional hockey players and brothers were killed on their bikes. The systemic failures that lead to their deaths, though, didn't generate nearly as much press.
Friday Video: How (and Why) To Paint a Ghost Bike
Roadside memorials can make the human costs of our traffic violence crisis visible — at least until someone tears them down. That's why filmmaker made it his mission to restore two ghost bikes that had vanished from Boston roads.
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?
Freeway Drivers Keep Slamming into Bridge Railing in Griffith Park
Drivers keep smashing the Riverside Drive Bridge railing - plus a few other Griffith Park bike/walk updates
