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ScienceDaily ( Jan. 13, 2008 ) — European researchers have demonstrated in the lab a collision warning system for cars that could alert the driver several seconds in advance of an imminent impact. The device could save thousands of lives and usher in the first steps towards the ‘connected car’.
It knows its location, [...]
August 11, 2008
Crash Warning System Monitors Nearby Traffic And Warns Of Possible Collisions
August 11, 2008
Toll Road Privatization May Result In More Crashes On Other Roads
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 15, 2008) — Privatizing toll roads in the U.S. may result in significant diversions of truck traffic from privatized toll roads to “free” roads, and may result in more crashes and increased costs associated with use of other roads, according to a new study.
The study used data from the State of [...]
August 11, 2008
Motorcycle Helmets Keep Riders Alive, International Review Confirms
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ScienceDaily ( Jan. 23, 2008 ) — Fewer than half of U.S. states require every motorcycle rider — drivers and passengers — to wear a helmet; and four states have no helmet requirements whatsoever. Around the world, the same patchwork legal pattern exists.
Now, an international group of researchers has combined data from a [...]
August 11, 2008
Using The Safety Belt In The Rear Seats Of The Car Reduces Death Risk By Almost A Half
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ScienceDaily ( Jan. 29, 2008 ) — The Spanish Government’s General Traffic Directorate (DGT) has been insisting for many years on that using the safety belt on the road can save lives. However, most of the drivers associate this warning with the use of such device in the front seats of cars, whereas [...]
August 11, 2008
Urban Sprawl Puts Teen Drivers At Even Higher Risk
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ScienceDaily ( Feb. 6, 2008 ) — Driving might be a badge of freedom for teen-agers, but it can also be deadly. Traffic crashes are the leading cause of teen fatalities in the United States, accounting for 44 percent, according to the National Safety Council. A new study suggests that urban sprawl could [...]
August 11, 2008
Car Crash Deaths Increase Starting At Age 12
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ScienceDaily ( Mar. 4, 2008 ) — Child passengers, ages 12 to 16, are more likely to die in a car crash than younger children, according to a study just released in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. This risk increases with each teenage year.
Conducted as part of an on-going research collaboration [...]
August 11, 2008
Stop-And-Go Traffic: An Accident? Construction Work? No, Just Too Much Traffic
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ScienceDaily ( Mar. 5, 2008 ) — A new study from a Japanese research group explains why we’re occasionally caught in traffic jams for no visible reason. The real origin of traffic jams often has nothing to do with obvious obstructions such as accidents or construction work but is simply the result of [...]
August 11, 2008
Red-light Cameras Increase Crashes, Florida Researchers Find
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ScienceDaily ( Mar. 12, 2008 ) — Rather than improving motorist safety, red-light cameras significantly increase crashes and are a ticket to higher auto insurance premiums, researchers at the University of South Florida College of Public Health conclude. The effective remedy to red-light running uses engineering solutions to improve intersection safety, which is [...]
August 11, 2008
Fatality Rates Increase With Repeal Of Helmet Laws, Study Finds
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ScienceDaily ( Apr. 2, 2008 ) — Since 1975, more than 100,000 motorcycle riders in America have died in crashes. The majority of states required motorcycle helmets in 1975, but today, only 20 states have universal helmet laws that require all riders to wear helmets, 26 states have partial coverage laws (usually only [...]
August 11, 2008
Road Safety: The Uncrashable Car?
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ScienceDaily ( Apr. 15, 2008 ) — The largest road safety research project ever launched in Europe will usher in a series of powerful road-safety systems for European cars. But, in the long term, its basic, experimental research could lead to a car that is virtually uncrashable.
A truck exits suddenly from a side [...]
