Car crashes

In the midst of a two-decade rise, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed new rules to "reduce fatalities among pedestrians."

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.

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 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?

Drivers keep smashing the Riverside Drive Bridge railing - plus a few other Griffith Park bike/walk updates

Rising interstate speeds don't just make roads deadlier for people who drive on them — and local decision makers need to be prepared.

U.S. car crash deaths are nearly 10 percent higher if you count collisions that happen just outside the right of way.

America's minuscule dip in overall deaths is being offset by record-setting fatalities among the most vulnerable.

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.