Research has revealed that an epidemic of “distracted driving” sweeping the US has claimed thousands of lives and injured a half-million people during 2008. The information about the deadly phenomenon in 2008 came from US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and was shared with a packed gathering in Washington of transportation, safety and technology experts and [...]
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Do you know anyone who blamed road-signage for his/her accident? Accident Investigator Stan Bezuidenhout has raised this question in an email we would like to share with visitors to the Road Safety Blog: “Dear colleague, As a Forensic Collision Reconstructionist, I read a lot – as you probably do as well. As part of a [...]
The Arrive Alive website received an email with photos of someone reading a newspaper in his vehicle in moving traffic. We have forwarded to the RTMC and more specific – to the National Traffic Call Centre. Please note that comments made were done so by the sender. We would like to confirm that reading is [...]
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Police say a tow truck driver was texting on one cellphone while talking on another when he slammed into a car and crashed into a swimming pool. Niagara County sheriff’s deputies say 25-year-old Nicholas Sparks admitted he was texting and talking when his flatbed truck hit the car on Wednesday morning in Lockport, which is [...]
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Texting while driving increases the risk of a crash much more than previous studies have concluded with motorists taking their eyes off the road longer than they do when talking or listening on their cell phones, a safety research institute said on Monday. The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute used cameras to continuously observe light vehicle [...]
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Click on the image to view the video On the Arrive Alive website we have added many pages of content on safe driving. One of these aspects is the need to avoid distractions while driving. In South Africa a rather unique distraction is the roadside distraction posed by animals. A visitor to the Arrive Alive [...]
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I have come across an interesting story titled “Road Safety Research In Australia Aims At iPod As The Villain”. This features criticism and commentary about a pedestrian road safety print campaign in Australia. It appears that the Aussies are taking lethal aim at Apple’s iPod in a fear-based road safety [...]
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Sydney – Australia’s far-north burnished its reputation for outrageous behaviour on Friday when a Darwin court fined Brad Milne for driving while having sex with his girlfriend. The 33-year-old builder was also convicted of drunk driving and not wearing a seatbelt. A fellow motorist witnessed erratic driving and [...]
Washington – In the United States, where driving while using telephones without hands-free adaptor kits and SMSing at the wheel are not widely illegal, one in four people confesses to sending messages while driving, a survey published on Wednesday found. “We often like to say 26% of people admit [...]
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