Week of August 27, 2018
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Electric Scooters’ Sudden Invasion Of American Cities, Explained
VOXTurns out there’s a lot of latent demand for a quick and cheap way to get around. Most scooter trips are 1 to 2 miles long, and the companies themselves pitch scooters as filling the “last mile” in transit, expanding the reach of a transit station or a bus stop.
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How Employers Can Help Keep Young Drivers Safe Behind The Wheel
Safety and Health MagazineAccording to NIOSH, motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of work-related deaths among people ages 16 to 24 in the United States. From 2003 to 2010, 843 workers in this age group died in on-the-job motor vehicle crashes.
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Have The Conversation: Coaching Drivers To Safety With Data
Fleet OwnerUtilizing technology and coaching can reduce the possibility of behavior leading to an incident or accident. It’s easy to understand how technologies such as lane departure warning systems, stability controls, and speed monitoring systems help increase safety; they prevent habits such as swerving, weaving, and speeding from taking place.
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Toyota Invests $500 Million in Uber to Get Self-Driving Cars on the Road
BloombergAs part of the pact, Toyota will manufacture Sienna minivans equipped with Uber’s self-driving technology, and another company will operate the fleet, said the person. They have yet to identify the third partner.
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Hanover County To Get VDOT’s First “Green T” Intersection At Busy School Crossover
IdeastationsThe Green T is a new concept that keeps traffic moving constantly in one direction and improves the turn lane, without the use of a traffic light. This article contains a VDOT link on how to navigate these innovative intersections!
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Missouri High School Students To Get Creative, Share Driver Safety
Colombia Daily TribuneIt’s important that teen drivers realize it only takes one text, one drink, one call, one reach or one distraction to cause one fatal moment; but that one clicked seat belt could be the difference between life or death in a car crash.
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City Drivers Slow Down For Lower Speed Limit In Boston
IIHSHigh travel speeds increase the risk of crashing and the risk of injuries when a crash occurs. Speeding, defined on police crash reports as exceeding the posted speed limit, driving too fast for conditions, or racing has been a factor in more than a quarter of U.S. crash deaths for more than 30 years.
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Chesterfield Police Name New Suspect In Crash That Killed 4-Year-Old Boy
NBC 12Crews arrived to the scene find two boys, a 7-year-old and a 4-year-old, with life-threatening injuries and two seriously injured adults. All were taken to the hospital. Police confirmed the 4-year-old, Elias Camacho, of Richmond, later died at the hospital.
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Download A Parent-Teen Driving Contract And Start The Talk About Road Safety
Driving-tests.orgParents know that driving can be fun, that it can be liberating, but that it can also be dangerous. To ease this concern and establish a basis of trust, a parent-driver contract provides the opportunity to form an open line of communication about the importance of safety and the expectations that come with the new and profound responsibility of driving.
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Lorain County High School Students challenged To Design Safe Driving Billboard
Morning JournalThe Lorain County Safe Communities Coalition is accepting design submissions from county high school students for billboards advocating for teen driver safety. Elyria police Capt. Christopher Costantino said campaigns using signage or bumper stickers advocating driver safety are effective and well-conducted, even if the problems continue to resurface.
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Mingo County School Bus Driver Arrested On DUI Charge While Taking Students To Soccer Game
Fox 11West Virginia Troopers received three be-on -the lookout alerts for the bus from calls stating the school bus was weaving in and out of lanes and driving recklessly. One officer spotted the bus weaving across the center line multiple times while it traveled northbound on U.S. 119 in Boone County, the complaint said. The officer then made a traffic stop for the bus.
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The Most Common And The Weirdest Forms Of Road Debris
WTOPThe AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety said road debris was a factor in more than 200,000 police-reported crashes across the country from 2011 to 2014. Two in three debris-related crashes result from things falling from a vehicle due to improper maintenance or an unsecured load.
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How Utah Uses Big Data To Make Highways Safer
GovTech“The more people we have looking at those crash records, those safety records, the more likely you are to find different solutions that we haven’t thought of before," said Robert Miles, director of traffic and safety at the Utah Department of Transportation.
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The Best Tool for Reducing Traffic Deaths? More Public Transit
StreetsBlog USACommunities built around transit tend to have safer walking and biking amenities, fewer parking lots and safer street design. Such features, as well as higher population density, make it easier for people to make shorter car trips, or avoid them all together — reducing their overall exposure to crashes.
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Virginia Public Schools Are Short Bus Drivers Before The First Day Of School
13 News NowHe said, "We are going to use everybody in this office, other employee groups who are certified to drive a school bus by the Commonwealth of Virginia. You have to have that certification... The primary mission is to get children safely to and from their places of instruction," said Transportation Director for Virginia Beach City Public Schools, David Pace.
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Corpus Christi Police Department Impressed By The Success Of Stealth Vehicles
KIIITV"When you drive around in a marked police car you don't see violations. Very few violations are going to occur in front of a marked police car. Some of the most dangerous behavior we've seen has been documented from these unmarked cars. They are extremely effective to target the worst case scenario," CCPD Lt. Chris Hooper said.