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• Demonstration attracts attention to dangerous intersection

  
  BikePortland.org Front Page — Authority: 617
  Concerned citizens and traffic safety advocates held signs on SE Foster last night at a notorious crossing just east of 80th. (Photos © J. Maus) Last night on SE Foster Road near 80th about 35 people, including Portland Mayor Sam Adams, gathered with homemade signs to draw attention to a notoriously dangerous ...
  19 hours ago

• Episode 269 – VW Passes Toyota, No IPO For GM Next Year, Woman Finally Gets License

  
  John's Journal — Authority: 130
  Runtime 7:42 Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota as the number-one automaker in the world. GM’s chairman Ed Whitacre doubts the company can go public next year, even though management has been saying it would. A woman in South Korea gets her drivers license…after 950 tries. All that and more, plus John answers ...
  21 hours ago

• Four Injured In Multi-Vehicle Crash On I-795

  
  New Bedford Herald by Kevin Dayhoff — Authority: 138
    NEWS RELEASE DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND STATE POLICE HEADQUARTERS: PIKESVILLE, MD 21208 (410)486-3101 TTY For Hearing Impaired (410)486-0677 Toll Free: 1-800-525-5555 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 10, 2009 FOUR INJURED IN MULTI-VEHICLE CRASH ON I-795 (Reisterstown, MD) – Four people were injured this ...
  1 day ago

• Four Injured In Multi-Vehicle Crash On I-795

  
  Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack — Authority: 509
  NEWS RELEASE DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND STATE POLICE HEADQUARTERS: PIKESVILLE, MD 21208 (410)486-3101 TTY For Hearing Impaired (410)486-0677 Toll Free: 1-800-525-5555 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 10, 2009 FOUR INJURED IN MULTI-VEHICLE CRASH ON I-795 (Reisterstown, MD) – Four people were injured this morning in a ...
  1 day ago

• Mayor Adams releases statement on pedestrian safety

  
  BikePortland.org Front Page — Authority: 617
  Mayor Sam Adams. (Photo © J. Maus) As we hinted at yesterday , Mayor Adams has released a statement in response the fatal collision on SE Foster last week. Adams was expected to share plans for “immediate changes” to a crossing of SE Foster that was the site of two collisions last week (one woman died and ...
  1 day ago

• Is the Bay Bridge S-Curve safe enough?

  
  CALIFORNIA BEAT — Authority: 422
  By WENDY STEWART Beat Staff Writer A Hayward man in his 50s hauling a container of Asian pears across the upper deck of the Bay Bridge during the early morning hours Monday became the first fatality stemming from the troublesome bypass curve installed over the Labor Day weekend. Official and witness accounts of ...
  2 days ago

• Federal investigators ignored runaway Toyota cases

  
  JusticeNewsFlash.com | Legal News | Lawyer Press Release — Authority: 142
  Legal news for product liability attorneys. A review of federal records revealed federal investigators ignored runaway cases. Product liability lawyers alerts- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration officials ignored reports of Toyota sudden accelerations. West Palm Beach, FL—Since 2001, over 1,000 reports ...
  2 days ago

• Crash Cab

  
  How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic — Authority: 566
  You thought those TVs in the back of New York taxis were supremely annoying? South Korea has legalized TVs in the front of cabs , for the drivers.
  3 days ago

• STUDY: Hybrids more likely to be involved in crashes with pedestrians, bicycles

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 685
  Filed under: Hybrid , Green Daily A recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds that hybrid vehicles are more likely to be involved in accidents with pedestrians and bicyclists under certain scenarios. According to state-level accident data, 77 of 8,387 hybrid vehicles (thats .9 ...
  3 days ago

• NHTSA study indicates hybrids have higher pedestrian crash rates

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 785
  Filed under: Hybrid , Safety A recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds that hybrid vehicles are more likely to be involved in accidents with pedestrians and bicyclists under certain scenarios. According to state-level accident data, 77 of 8,387 hybrid vehicles (thats .9 ...
  3 days ago

• Car rally organized to spread awareness about traffic discipline in Kolkata

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Kolkata, Nov 8(ANI): In a bid to spread awareness about traffic discipline in Kolkata, hundreds of enthusiasts participate in a car rally organized here on Sunday.Organized by ‘Kolkata on Wheels’, a city magazine in association with the Government-run State Bank of India, the car rally saw participation by 170 ...
  4 days ago

• The Geography of Road Danger

  
  How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic — Authority: 566
  This color-coded traffic fatality chart is via ChartsBin . Iraq is one country that leaps out, and I’m not sure what part the road danger there is due to absence of government structure, bad infrastructure, or whether war/insurgency-related deaths (e.g., IEDs) are coded as traffic fatalities. Not to mention, from ...
  5 days ago

• Fords New Inflatable Seatbelts to Launch with Next-Gen Explorer

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 629
  Hoping to mitigate crash-related injuries to a vehicles rear-seat passengers, Ford Motor Co. unveiled what it is calling the auto industrys first seatbelts with integral air bags that inflate in an accident to provide additional protection. The new rear-seat inflatable seatbelts will be offered for the ...
  6 days ago

• Carfax adds Cash for Clunkers Data

  
  Auto Credit Express Bad Credit Car Loan Blog — Authority: 123
  Latest move from Carfax will help many bad credit car loan buyers Bad credit and used carsAt Auto Credit Express, we’ve spent nearly twenty years helping consumers with bad credit raise their FICO scores and reestablish their car credit by financing a vehicle with a bad credit car loan. Along the way, we’ve tried ...
  6 days ago

• Episode 265 – Chrysler’s Turnaround Plan, Opel Workers Protest, NHTSA Criticizes Toyota

  
  John's Journal — Authority: 130
  Runtime 8:18 Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne held a marathon press briefing yesterday and made it very clear the company has the cash, the resources and the plan to turn itself around. Opel workers in Germany walked off the job to protest GM’s decision to keep it. NHTSA is criticizing Toyota for statements ...
  6 days ago

• Alberta Office of Traffic Safety - Impaired PSA: Trading places

  
  Ads of the World — Authority: 710
  Advertising Agency: Calder Bateman Communications, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Creative Director: Kevin BarclayArt Director: Jeff McLeanCopywriter: Bob WoodDirector: Mark MainguyProducer: Max Wawruck, MaxmediaProduction Co.: Stir ProductionsEditor: Fini FilmsVisual Effects: Fini FilmsMusic: Colin WeinmasterSound ...
  1 week ago

• Alberta Office of Traffic Safety - Speed PSA: Dead stop

  
  Ads of the World — Authority: 710
  Advertising Agency: Calder Bateman Communications, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Creative Director: Jeff McLeanArt Director: Jeff McLeanCopywriter: Bob WoodDirector: Cliff SkeltonProduction Co.: Bear StudiosEditor: Scott ParkerVisual Effects: Rat CreekMusic: Davor VulamaSound Production: Wayne Kozak Audio ...
  1 week ago

• Safety Agency Rebukes Toyota Over Floor-Mat Issue

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration publicly rebuked Toyota, accusing it of putting out "inaccurate and misleading" information about the unintended acceleration problem that could affect 3.8 million vehicles.
  1 week ago

• Safety Agency Rebukes Toyota Over Floor-Mat Issue

  
  Wheels — Authority: 666
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration publicly rebuked Toyota, accusing it of putting out "inaccurate and misleading" information about the unintended acceleration problem that could affect 3.8 million vehicles.
  1 week ago

• You Am Them, We are They

  
  How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic — Authority: 566
  A Beckett-ian transcript of a self-reported drunk-driving call to 911: Dispatch: You behind them? Mary Strey: No, I am them. Dispatch: You am them? Mary Strey: Yes, I am them. Dispatch: Okay, so you want to call and report you’re driving drunk? Mary Strey: Yes. Dispatch: Are you still driving right now? You want ...
  1 week ago

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