Although he says that “the mission is harder now,” a man at the core of a seminal media campaign more than two decades ago doesn’t see why a repeat performance, altered to better accommodate 21st century changes in the viewing audience and its habits, can’t work once again. The man at center stage in…
If you’re the type of Ohio motorist who always buckles up and never needs reminding to do so, good for you. If you’re not, you might soon get reminded. And ticketed. And acquainted once again with that catch phrase that issues annually at just about this time nationally each year: Click it or ticket….
“Remember, trees don’t move.” That is less advice than it is something to simply keep firmly in mind for the driver of any motorized vehicle. In car accidents, drivers almost always lose when an immobile object is involved. And if that is true for vehicles offering enclosure protection, it is even more the case…
Many health and safety advocates will willingly subscribe to the notion that more Americans walking and riding bikes equates to a cumulatively healthier populace. The only problem with that idea in much of Ohio and elsewhere across the United States is that, compared to a number of other nations, venturing outside the house in…
The above headline is, unfortunately, far from hyperbole. The sad and simple fact is that, notwithstanding the strong and persistent efforts of safety regulators, law enforcement departments, school officials and a host of other groups, teen motorists continue to text while driving. And the number of those doing so just keeps going up and…
New safety guidelines proposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation for Ohio drivers and their peers across the country will serve “to balance the innovation consumers want with the safety we all need,” says DOT Secretary Ray LaHood. LaHood has long been a strong regulatory pitchman for promoting on-board technologies and gadgetries that enhance…
Never heard of the Ohio Investigative Unit (OIU)? Chances are that most Ohioans haven’t, although a number of state teens and other young people might be gaining some close-up familiarity with that body within the next couple months. The OIU is a unit of the Ohio Department of Public Safety, tasked with enforcing local,…
Car maker Hyundai is having persistent and nagging problems with a safety-related issue in millions of its vehicle that engineers have made repeated and unsuccessful attempts to fix. The issue, which relates to a brake light malfunction, has stubbornly resisted a fix for several years, and the car accident concerns it raises resulted last…
Red-light traffic cameras just rub some people the wrong way in Ohio and elsewhere across the country. Understandably, among that peeved group are not city council members and municipal administrators who readily welcome the infusion of cash resulting from speeding tickets. For many others, though, the concept is an affront to personal liberty interests…
Most readers will likely remember all too well the fallout suffered by Toyota Motor Corporation in recent years relating to so-called sudden acceleration problems affecting many of its vehicles. Widespread personal injury and wrongful death litigation resulted from the claims of thousands of motorists that their vehicles sped up summarily and without warning. Toyota…