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More than a third of U.S. Fatal and Injury Vehicle Crashes Could be Avoided or Mitigated with Autonomous Emergency Braking Systems

September 15, 2021 By CollisionWeek Editor

New accident research shows potential to reduce up to 649,000 crashes with injuries or fatalities in U.S. each year. New accident research from Bosch shows the potential of Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) to notably improve roadway safety. According to Bosch’s research, when AEB is present in all vehicles, it could help mitigate or avoid altogether […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, AEB, Bosch, Crash Avoidance, Traffic Fatalities

NHTSA Reports Motor Vehicle Fatalities Up Over 10% in First Quarter

September 7, 2021 By CollisionWeek Editor

Q1 2021 Regional Traffic Fatalities

Increase occurred even though traffic volume was up year-over-year. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today released the Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities for the First Quarter of 2021. NHTSA estimates that 8,730 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the first three months of 2021, a 10.5% […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Fatalities

U.S. Senators Introduce Road to Zero Resolution Calling for an End to Traffic Deaths

July 28, 2021 By CollisionWeek Editor

With traffic deaths on the rise, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) led their Congressional colleagues in introducing the Road to Zero resolution today in support of progress to eliminate traffic deaths. The resolution expresses a commitment to advancing policies to end roadway fatalities by 2050 and supports efforts to […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: legislation, Road to Zero Coalition, Traffic Fatalities, U.S. Senate

Fatality Data Show Increased Traffic Fatalities During Pandemic in 2020

June 7, 2021 By CollisionWeek Editor

Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities by Region

Risky driving behaviors including failure to wear a seatbelt, speeding, and drinking while driving identified as contributing factors. While Americans drove less in 2020 due to the pandemic, NHTSA’s early estimates show that an estimated 38,680 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes—the largest projected number of fatalities since 2007. This represents an increase of […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Governors Highway Safety Association, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Fatalities

Pedestrian Deaths Soar in 2020 Despite Drop in Driving During Pandemic

May 26, 2021 By CollisionWeek Editor

Projected fatality rate for people walking spiked 21% for largest ever year-over-year increase as dangerous driving and traffic violence plagued U.S. roads. New data from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) projects that 2020 had the largest ever annual increase in the rate at which drivers struck and killed people on foot. What drove this […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Governors Highway Safety Association, Pedestrian Safety, Traffic Fatalities

U.S. Pedestrian Death Rate in 2020 on Pace for Record High Despite Significant Drop in Driving

March 24, 2021 By CollisionWeek Editor

A new report from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) projects that the U.S. pedestrian fatality rate rose 20% in the first six months of 2020 as speeding, distracted and impaired driving, and other dangerous driving behaviors increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. GHSA’s annual Spotlight on Highway Safety offers the first comprehensive look at state […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Governors Highway Safety Association, Pedestrian Safety, Traffic Fatalities

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Partners with Governor’s Highway Safety Association and National Road Safety Foundation to Pilots to Reduce Speeding

March 4, 2021 By CollisionWeek Editor

After rise in speeding during pandemic, groups launch initiatives to slow drivers down. Three national roadway safety organizations — the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and National Road Safety Foundation (NRSF) — are partnering to fund and evaluate pilot projects by two states to reduce speeding. Maryland and Virginia […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Agreements Signed, Governors Highway Safety Association, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, National Road Safety Foundation, Traffic Fatalities

New Report Details Teen Driver Speeding Impact on Fatalities

January 26, 2021 By CollisionWeek Editor

Teen Speeding

The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), in partnership with Ford Motor Company Fund, today released a new report that examines the significant role speeding plays in teen driver fatalities and offers practical tools to help parents rein in this lethal driving habit. The new analysis for GHSA found that from 2015 to 2019, teen drivers […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Governors Highway Safety Association, Teen Driving, Traffic Fatalities

Traffic Safety Groups Call on Biden Administration to Commit to Zero Roadway Deaths by 2050

January 22, 2021 By CollisionWeek Editor

Road to Zero Coalition

The nation’s largest coalition of traffic safety organizations – Road to Zero – along with Toward Zero Deaths, Vision Zero Network, Families for Safe Streets and 74 partner organizations and individuals, sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to commit the efforts of the federal government to achieve zero roadway deaths by 2050. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Road to Zero Coalition, Traffic Fatalities

U.S. Roadway Deaths Surge Over 13% in Third Quarter

January 15, 2021 By CollisionWeek Editor

q3 2020 Roadway Deaths

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that 11,260 people were killed on U.S. roadways in the third quarter of 2020, a 13.1% increase compared to the third quarter of 2019. For the first nine months of 2020, 28,190 people died in crashes, a 4.6% increase from the year before. Traffic deaths rose even […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Fatalities

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