News tagged with 'Highway Safety'

37,000 traffic fatalities a year may represent an improvement over the statistics of the past, but various authorities opine on how we can make roads safer in this New York Times Opinion page.

With more travelers taking to motorcycles than in previous years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds that antilock brakes save lives.

Looking at collision data in three states and the District of Columbia after hand-held phone bans were put into place, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds no difference in the crash rate. The results are perplexing in that other studies have shown distracted driving presents a four-fold increase in the risk of collision and injuries.

Making antilock brakes standard on motorcycles could save thousands of lives a year, concludes the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in this report.