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• 6 Year Old Boy Killed By Drunk Driver in Morwell

  
  YG NEWS — Authority: 122
  Drink Driver Bloody Idiot Car Crash - Six Year Old Kid Killed By Drunk Driver Its time to wake up people. This is what road tragedy is all about. And its a story so sad that its almost too much to bear. A 6 year old boy, playing in the front yard of his house in Morwell was killed by drunk driver who lost control ...
  22 hours ago

• December road death toll in South Africa nears 500

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 127
  Close to 500 people have died on South Africa’s roads since December 1 in over 350 crashes. Preliminary reports on the statistics issued by the Ministry of Transport listed the dead as 126 drivers, 184 passengers and 134 pedestrians. Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele appealed to public transport operators to ...
  1 day ago

• Industry chamber to teach good driving skills

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) In order to reduce the alarming numbers of road fatalities in the country, Confederation of Indian Industry Friday joined hands with Shell India to inculcate good driving skills and create awareness about safe driving among the people.“Two global organisations - CII’s Institute of Quality ...
  2 days ago

• Vehicles at work - ebulletin

  
  What's new at HSE — Authority: 441
  Latest eBulletin out now - this issue: Joint inspections of loads in 2010, falls from vehicles, risk assessments… Sign up for free regular email updates - Falls from vehicles campaign, vehicles at work advice, guidance, case studies and events. Subscribe to Vehicles at work eBulletin
  2 days ago

• 448 people killed on South African roads since the beginning of December

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 127
  A total of 448 people were killed on South African roads since the beginning of December, the transport department said on Thursday. “Road deaths are more than mere statistics… One death on our roads is one death too many,” spokesperson Logan Maistry said. He said the department would compile a full report on ...
  3 days ago

• LED traffic lights dont melt snow, do cause accidents

  
  Engadget — Authority: 836
  A number of cold weather American states are reporting their dismay at finding out that LED traffic lights are so energy efficient that they do not produce enough excess heat to dissipate any snow that covers them. It turns out, perhaps in an homage to bad engineering everywhere, that the inefficiency of ...
  3 days ago

• In drunk-driving spot, theres no going back

  
  AdFreak — Authority: 660
  The blood and gore of a thousand Australian PSAs cant match the intensity of this anti-drunk-driving spot by VWK in Albuquerque for the New Mexico Department of Transportation. This is almost a cant-miss category: The subject matter lends itself to powerful messages and stirring imagery. Yet, so much has been done, ...
  3 days ago

• Hertz sponsors The Road Safety Foundation for a second consecutive year

  
  Travelwires.com — Authority: 140
  Apart from offering breakdown and accident assistance in the Van Reenen’s Pass area, The Road Safety Foundation has been operating an extensive Medical Community Service in the area for the past 27 years.  Their contribution to the assistance and upliftment of rural schools has been a silent lifesaver for many ...
  3 days ago

• More 20 mph speed limits to be introduced

  
  ICM Commercial & Business News — Authority: 435
  Although Britain already has the safest roads in the world – holding joint first place with Sweden – more 20mph speed limits are to be introduced in residential areas around the country after pilot schemes reveal a marked decrease in incidents. In a change to current speed calming conditions, these slower zones ...
  4 days ago

• North West Public Works hit by road scandal

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 127
  The head of the North West department of public works, roads and transport , Nic van Staden, and his chief financial officer, Kwekwu Odami-Takyi, were yesterday suspended pending an investigation into their alleged involvement in the awarding of contracts. Departmental spokesperson Matshube Mfoloe said the two had ...
  4 days ago

• Unintended Consequence of Technology: New LED traffic lights cant melt snow

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 737
  Filed under: Etc. , Safety , Technology Traffic lights using state-of-the-art LED illumination use 90 percent less electricity, offer a much longer service life and are more durable than their incandescent counterparts. Taking advantage of the countless benefits, cities around the country have been replacing ...
  4 days ago

• Some Things Can’t Be Reversed

  
  Osocio Weblog — Authority: 516
  Jean Julien from iPub send me this video from the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT, USA). The video shows a reverse filmed accident caused by drunk driving. I’ve seen that before. I found five other campaign video’s made with the same technique. See them after the break. The NMDOT advertising ...
  4 days ago

• Speed bumps may be removed under new Government safety plans

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Thousands of speed bumps could be stripped out of residential streets under new road safety plans announced by the Government.
  4 days ago

• Beijing has more than four million registered vehicles

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 127
  Beijing will see more than four million vehicles registered on its roads this weekend, state media said Tuesday, with around 2 000 new cars sold daily in the increasingly affluent Chinese capital. The number of cars currently in Beijing, famed for its traffic jams and high levels of pollution, hit 3.99 million as of ...
  5 days ago

• Volvo Stop Accidents By 2012

  
  Blog Your Site — Authority: 163
  Volvo are conducting a large field test with the aim of preventing any injury or accident in a Volvo by 2020. Around 100 Volvo V70 and XC70 cars have been fitted with state-of-the-art technology which will monitor how people deal with different driving situations. The technology will monitor the drivers behaviour ...
  5 days ago

• TAC: Watch the road toll halve

  
  Osocio Weblog — Authority: 516
  On December 10th 1989 the first TAC (Transport Accident Commission Australia) commercial went to air. In that year the road toll was 776; by last year it had fallen to 303. For this years Christmas campaign TAC made a five minute retrospective of the campaigns produced over the last 20 years. The montage features ...
  5 days ago

• Red light means go (or does it?)

  
  The Bike Show — Authority: 112
  Should cyclists stop at red lights? Why do we feel such a strong urge to keep rolling? Should our behavior be guided by the law of the land or the laws of common courtesy? What would Isaac Newton and Thomas Aquinas have to say about the matter? Bringing their expertise to a discussion of the physics and philosophy of ...
  5 days ago

• Premier weeps at death site in KZN

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 127
  KwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize wept while comforting relatives of 12 people, including nine children, who were killed in a collision near Eston on Monday night. Four others were injured, two critically, when a blue Nissan bakkie and a heavy-goods truck crashed head-on on the R603, near Mid Illovo. Five ...
  5 days ago

• Success for Don’t Let This Happen To You young drivers’ campaign

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 444
  The West of Scotland Road Safety Forum (WoSRSF) launched its ‘Don’t Let This Happen To You’ campaign in the summer, to follow its ‘Hero to Zero’ campaign in 2007.This has been notably successful, reducing the numbers of casualties among young drivers in the west of Scotland from 5 a day in 2006 to 3 a [...]
  6 days ago

• Hijacked bus causes mayhem in Durban

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 127
  A hijacked bus crashed into a car and overturned, blocking traffic on Durban’s M4 Ruth First Highway’s north bound carriageway, emergency services said on Sunday. “The bus had been stolen from Soldiers’ Way and the hijacker was making his way out of the city when the accident occurred,” said Netcare 911 ...
  1 week ago

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