Here’s a bit of irony that has recently been manifest on Interstate 90 in the most northeastern corner of the state near Pennsylvania: A highway repair project geared toward increasing traffic safety has quite directly led to a spate of truck accidents. In fact, more than half a dozen truck crashes occurred near Conneaut…
Consumer beware: Your recent car purchase may be harboring some neglected recalls. A new study completed by the vehicle-history website Carfax has found that more than two million vehicles were put up for sale online in 2012 despite featuring unrepaired safety recalls. Since plenty of cars are sold offline, though, the actual figures in…
“This is not rocket science, and it’s obviously not cost prohibitive,” says Adrian Lund, the president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). He adds: “And we know how to fix this.” What Lund is referring to is the too-often deadly car crash scenario in which a passenger vehicle collides with a commercial…
For baby boomer bikers: crashes comparatively frequent, severe A new study indicates that older motorcycle riders, even experienced ones, who continue riding as they reach their 50s and 60s are building a track record like aging athletes. When they suffer injury, they tend to get seriously hurt and take longer to recover. This is…
A spokesperson for an environmental advocacy organization recently voiced his view that the results of an OSHA inspection into an oil refinery explosion last August would be “revelatory” and expose Chevron’s safety culture as nothing more than “running the refinery to the point of failure.” He was right. In an investigation just concluded into…
Many motorists get uneasy when driving in the presence of 18-wheelers and other commercial vehicles. But according to new driver safety data, the risks don’t necessary lie in the commercial vehicles themselves, but rather how other cars behave around them. And while motorists may want to point the finger at commercial vehicles for the…
Some day in the future when people who pay close attention to the government bureaucracy and high-placed regulators within it are asked to think of a high-ranking official who was consumer-friendly and unabashedly activist, the name of Ray LaHood might come to mind for many of them. LaHood, who announced earlier this week that…
The widely accepted notion about new safety features and vehicle enhancements is that they are drastically improving driver and passenger safety. And there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that: Safety advancements such as anti-lane drift technology, rear-view cameras, emergency brake assists and others have been designed in hopes of preventing thousands of car accidents…
Manufacturing and industrial worksites can be flatly dangerous places in which to work, as evidenced by safety-related numbers and statistics issuing from diverse federal and state organizations tasked with oversight of worker safety. Construction accidents and other on-the-job injuries can arise from any number and type of unsafe conditions involving moving equipment, electrical wires,…
A recent release of data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that 2012 brought the largest increase in traffic fatalities seen since 1975. This alarming trend brings an abrupt end to a decade-long decline in deaths resulting from car accidents and leads some to wonder whether lawmakers have put traffic safety programs…