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The Vision Zero plan to eliminate traffic fatalities centers around the “three e’s”, educating road users about safe driving and safe behavior, engineering safer streets, and enforcement of traffic laws by police officers. For several years, Vision Zero SF has been...
There’s no doubt that a catastrophic injury can reshape your or your loved one’s life. In addition to the unbearable pain and suffering that has been thrust upon you, simple day-to-day activities can become impossible. This, in turn, can lead to stress, frustration,...
If you are involved in a vehicular accident and the driver that caused the accident fails to identify himself/herself, certain steps must be taken to prove the uninsured motorist claims of any injury victims. To begin, you must have Uninsured Motorist/Underinsured...
Although there were far less drivers traveling on U.S. roads in 2020 because of the pandemic lock downs, the traffic deaths have greatly increased. The National Safety Council recently reported that 42,060 people died in vehicle crashes in 2020. This figure was an...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said traffic deaths decreased 2% in 2019. Pedestrian deaths dropped 2.7%, bicyclist fatalities dropped 2.9%, motorcycle deaths dropped by 0.5%. Deaths in passenger vehicles fell 2.8%. The downward trend is...
Going over a minor bump while behind the wheel can cause your body to shake. So, when car accident victims take a hit to the rear end of their vehicle, there is a pretty good chance that their neck jerked back and forth. This impact can cause a series of injuries...
The injuries a person can suffer in a car accident are often extremely painful and life-threatening. Unfortunately, some life-threatening injuries are not easy to identify, and may not cause any pain at all until they worsen. In some cases, by the time that a victim...
San Francisco traffic fatalities continue to increase at an alarming rate. Fourteen people have died in 2019 in the first five months, including eight pedestrians, a skateboarder and a cyclist. At this rate, the City could have as many as 37 deaths by the end of...
The first fatality involving a "self-driving" vehicle occurred in a pedestrian accident in Tempe, Arizona on March 18, 2018. A pedestrian, walking a bicycle across a 4-lane roadway at night was struck by a self-driving UBER traveling at 38 MPH. Although the pedestrian...
The highest rate of increase of traffic deaths between 2010 and 2016 in the world belongs to the United States. Only 5 of 29 Countries had an increase in traffic deaths during this period and the U.S. led with a 13.5 percent increase according to a study by the...
