Increasing concern about drunk-driving in Sweden and elsewhere prompted Saab to develop a solution, the Alcokey. Read More »
State Highway Safety Offices Concerned with Increase in Fatalities
Today's release of the 2003 Preliminary Estimate of Highway Fatalities by the Department of Transportation (DOT), which shows a slight increase in deaths, is disappointing news. Read More »
NHTSA Says Drunk Driving Deaths Increased In 17 States
After years of gradual improvement, fatalities in alcohol-related crashes are on the rise nationally. Read More »
NHTSA Says Drunk Driving Deaths Increased In 17 States
U.S. Transportation Secretary, Norman Y. Mineta, today announced that alcohol-related traffic death rates decreased in 32 states but increased in 17 during the last five years. Read More »
NHTSA Says Drunk Driving Deaths Increased In 17 States
U.S. Transportation Secretary, Norman Y. Mineta, today announced that alcohol-related traffic death rates decreased in 32 states but increased in 17 during the last five years. Read More »
American Society of Safety Engineers Address Distracted Driving
o reduce accidents and fatalities on the roadways and to guard against distracted drivers, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) recommends companies develop or upgrade their employee driving guidelines, and, that states improve driver education information. Read More »
Brain Imaging — Driver Distraction
When you drive, how much of a distraction is talking on a cell phone, eating or fiddling with the radio? Read More »
Distracted Driving Legislation
GHSA has long believed that there are a variety of distractions that either cause a driver to crash or contribute to the crash and the Association's policy reflects this fact. Dr. Stutts' research validates what state highway safety offices have long known: distractions such as talking with other passengers, looking at objects outside the vehicle, adjusting the radio and eating, are just as likely if not more likely to distract the driver as a cell phone. Read More »
Keeping Pets Safe On Short Trips In The Car
The combination of pets and vehicles on television and in film has always been a little far fetched. Chevy Chase driving with a dog tied to his bumper in "National Lampoon's Vacation," the reckless and never wreck-less cat Toonces from "Saturday Night Live," and the thoughtful hand signals of Clyde the orangutan in the movie "Every Which Way But Loose" come to mind. Whether or not you find them humorous depends on your comedic inclinations. Either way, they don't accurately portray the serious side of driving with your pets. For those of us that do so, the lion's share of them are short trips. Drives to the v-e-t, dog park, and the like. Like anything, there are right ways and wrong ways. Read More »
Road Rage: Taming the Road Warrior In Each Of Us
What would your reaction be to the following situation? You're travelling down the street in your car at a reasonable rate of speed, when the car just ahead of you in the next lane suddenly cuts you off.Stunned, scared and taken off guard, what would you do? Read More »
