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The National Transportation Safety Board has released its annual “Most Wanted List” that features a number of upgrades it would like to see incorporated into commercial trucks. This year’s wish list includes four recommendations: Eliminating Substance-Impaired Driving; Preserving the Integrity of Transportation Infrastructure; Elimination Distraction in Transportation; and Mandating Motor Vehicle Collision Avoidance Technology….

Companies cited by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) for safety-related violations at construction and other work sites can accept the citation — whether that means paying a fine, remedying a substandard work condition that could lead to a construction accident, equipment accident or other injury or terminating engagement in a dangerous activity…

In a recent blog post (please see our October 29 entry), we noted the hopes of auto manufacturers that autonomous vehicles — cars and trucks with accident-avoidance features that assist drivers and actually operate in many instances independently of them — would begin having a notably salutary effect on curbing car accidents and vehicle-related…

Two weeks ago, an Ohio man was found dead at a construction company’s office in Tallmadge. The 48-year-old, a mechanic from Deerfield, died of compressional asphyxia, according to the medical examiner. A co-worker found him dead, trapped under a pneumatic lift. According to news reports, the man was fixing some construction equipment when the…

We have all heard about the devastation that texting and driving can cause, and some people have experienced it firsthand. In Ohio, it is illegal for residents to text while driving for the purpose of keeping our roads safe and preventing serious car accidents. Those who are caught doing so can face fines and…

A number of states and municipalities across the country employ one driving-enforcement mechanism that has a number of motorists seeing red in more ways than one. Namely, those are speed and red-light cameras used by officials who routinely cite their utility in materially reducing car accidents and encouraging cautious driving behaviors around busy intersections….

Red decals affixed to the license plates of cars driven by young drivers in one state — New Jersey — have been effective in preventing car accidents, according to a new study, but those positive results haven’t quieted the criticisms that the new approach infringes upon the constitutional liberties of the drivers and also…

A recent report on deer-car collisions authored by State Farm insurance company might profitably include a bit of prefatory data relating to Ohio to give its results a truly meaningful measurement for the state. First, and according to outdoorchannel.com (a television provider catering to sportsmen), deer hunting has an estimated $1 billion annual economic…

As tech giant Google continues to test its self-driving vehicles on various states’ highways, the final hurdles to complete safety and vehicle autonomy are coming under the microscope. Most regulators consider autonomous vehicles to be the next evolutionary step in personal transportation, and a revolution that will reduce traffic deaths in the United States….

The City of Columbus, Ohio, has agreed to pay an accident victim $1.25 million to compensate him for the injuries he sustained because of poor road conditions. The victim’s lawsuit alleged that large potholes that the city failed to repair were a major contributing factor in the collision between his bicycle and a car…