At least 20 U.S. states reported seeing a noticeable drop in fatal car crashes during thecoronavirus pandemic. CBS News reached out to 26 states with a historically high number of traffic deaths, and found that fatal car crashes on California freeways dropped a stunning 84%. California highway...
Reports that driving in the high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes on freeways -- lanes reserved for automobiles with two or more passengers -- increases the risk of car crashes in the United States. Increase in the number of miles travelled in HOV lanes since 1990, suggesting they have become ...
Pedestrian Fatal Crashes on Freeways in Texas Over the five-year period of 2007 through 2011, 2,232 fatal pedestrian crashes were recorded in Texas. 21% of these crashes were found to have occurred on controlled-access facilities (i.e. freeways). This is an alarmingly high number fo... V...
This study investigates the effects of the traffic flow parameters related to individual drivers lane-changing and car-following behavior on the occurrence of sideswipe and rear-end crashes on freeways. A total of 184 sideswipe and 605 rear-end crashes on I-4 freeway in Orlando, Florida, with...
Stabbing suspect was tased before deadly series of crashes "Seeing something like that, it just shows you that anything can happen in a split second," one witness said Aug 27, 2019 Man dressed as Joker leads police on car chase California is well-known for its televised car chases. But on...
Pile-ups generally occur in low-visibility conditions along freeways. A direct cause is a vehicle driving too close to the vehicle in front and not adjusting to road conditions. Chain reaction crashes are the result of this unsafe type of driving.Learn More About Multiple Vehicle Collisions ...
For example, some truck drivers drive faster than passenger car drivers on freeways/highways. Also, trucks may travel slower on upgrades but faster on downgrades than passenger cars due to gravity as well as their physical and operational characteristics. Likewise, maneuverability effects the ...
000 injuries and deaths due to vehicle collisions. The largest percentage of these collisions involving property damage or injuries occurred on metropolitan freeways with the majority occurring in Los Angeles County. Additionally, there were 129,452hit-and-runcrashes that resulted in nearly 25,000 ...
Understanding the dynamics of truck traffic on freeways by evaluating truck passenger car equivalent (PCE) in the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) 2010 Truck traffic causes significant problems, including congestion, delay, crashes, pollution, energy consumption, and road damage in many regions because ...
Both V2V and V2I have the potential to reduce around 80 percent of vehicle crashes on the road. More and more new cars can read traffic signs, maintain a safe distance in steady traffic and brake automatically to avoid crashes. Moreover, a number of firms are creating cars that drive ...