#traffic-safety

#traffic-safety

Olga Cook, who was biking northbound, and the car, driving southbound and turning right across the bike path, had simultaneous green lights, thanks to an outdated system that doesn't meet national street standards known as single phasing. Because of that, the car turned right into Olga Cook, 30, who was biking straight through a green light, believing she had the exclusive right of way.

It's very sad for her family. It's the loss of a mother. I always considered losing a mother as terrible - losing any parent or anybody - but losing a mother is terrible to a family. We hear of road accidents, but we always hear of them further away - it brings it home to you about how badly road accidents affect people.

At around 9 a.m., troopers responded to a report that a bucket truck had been knocked onto its side and into oncoming traffic on Memorial Drive, according to a statement from Massachusetts State Police. The worker - who was in the bucket at the time of the incident, Boston 25 News reports - was transported to a hospital with serious injuries, police said.

The National Safety Council recently estimated that U.S. traffic deaths plummeted by nearly 5,000 between 2024 and 2025 - a 12-percent drop, and the largest single-year decline since at least 1999. That estimate still means that 37,810 people lost their lives in car crashes last year - a horrifying number, but the lowest one published by NSC since 2019.

The project repaved 10th St. between Madison St. and Webster St., delivering significant traffic calming and pedestrian safety upgrades. The improvements were coordinated in partnership with the Alameda County Transportation Commission Safe Routes to School program, which identifies and funds traffic safety improvements that support students and families who walk and bike to school.

A State Police trooper was seriously injured Saturday after a car crashed into his police SUV on a Salisbury highway, State Police said. The trooper had stopped on I-95 South to remove a ladder from the roadway Saturday afternoon, the agency said in a press release. After he got back into his cruiser, another vehicle suddenly struck the trooper's car.

The bill had broad support last year from labor groups and 41 of the City Council's 51 members from across the political spectrum, including now-Speaker Julie Menin. Amazon currently uses third-party Delivery Service Partners, or DSPs, to make its deliveries - a model that allows the company to skirt responsibility for its massive delivery operations. DSPs pop up and close down constantly, repeatedly forcing delivery drivers out of work.

Another day in California, another fatal "accident" taking the lives of innocent Californians whose only misfortune was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This latest incident of driver negligence occurred in Westwood, in Los Angeles, on Feb. 5. The crash is strikingly similar to the one in Burlingame last summer, where a 19-year-old motorist killed 4-year-old Ayden Fang and sent a 6-year-old girl standing beside him on the sidewalk outside a downtown restaurant to Stanford Hospital.

CITYWIDE - THE MTA ON Wednesday issued a notice that Automated Camera Enforcement fines are set to begin on Friday, Feb. 6, on the B68, B60 and M57 bus routes. Vehicles caught improperly using busways and bus lanes, blocking bus stops or illegally double parked will receive summonses that start at $50 and escalate to $250 for repeat violators. Bus routes with automated enforcement on average have increased speeds by 5%, with some corridors seeing gains as high as 30%, according to the authority.

As a result, the town has been deemed noncompliant by the state and was sued last week by Attorney General Andrea Campbell, alongside eight other municipalities. The grant was awarded in October 2024 through the Healey-Driscoll administration's Community One Stop for Growth program and administered by the Executive Office of Economic Development. In its award letter, the EOED warned that no contract would be executed if the town remained noncompliant with Section 3A of Chapter 40A, the MBTA Communities Act. The EOED declined to comment.

The Hunter College study examined 155 intersections during a three week period in Dec. 2025, when a team of 56 researchers observed individuals using anything that's not a car to get around: bikes, e-bikes, mopeds and scooters. The researchers looked at the type of vehicles they used and how street design affected their behavior. "Our results indicated that any implication that delivery workers are less safe than non-commercial riders is misplaced," the study authors concluded. Fifty-eight percent of recreational riders disobeyed a red light.

"Ninety-five percent of the people in Berkeley disregard the signs, which we have placed to regulate traffic," Fisher continued. "There is no excuse for this when it is considered that the ordinance is the work of the people themselves. From July (1925) to January (1926), there were 522 accidents in this city. In these five persons were killed and 178 injured".

If the citizens of Berkeley would observe the traffic ordinance, half of the problem facing the police department today would be solved, declares J. Fisher, traffic officer the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported a century ago on Jan. 22, 1926. Ninety-five percent of the people in Berkeley disregard the signs, which we have placed to regulate traffic, Fisher continued. There is no excuse for this when it is considered that the ordinance is the work of the people themselves.

I think that's why it's hitting so hard, is that people who are not directly affected by this, it really hurts,

I'd say that a lot of times people think that they are safe drivers, and so they think that the weather conditions don't affect them, Sparks said. But I would just say that you can't control what other drivers are doing, first of all, and when you have limited visibility coupled with limited stopping distance because of snowy or icy roads, there's nothing you can do sometimes to prevent a crash.

If a dense fog advisory is issued for your area, it means that widespread dense fog has developed and visibility often drops to just a quarter-mile or less. These conditions can make driving challenging, so exercise extreme caution on the road, and if possible, consider delaying your trip. If you must drive in foggy conditions, keep the following safety tips in mind:

OAKLAND The city's transportation director stood Friday morning at a busy Oakland intersection, explaining how newly installed road-safety cameras will work, when suddenly his voice was drowned out by a car roaring down a nearby road. The vehicle, nowhere in sight, was apparently going fast enough that its rattling engine could be heard loudly by those gathered at Broadway and 27th Street, where one of the new cameras is mounted to a street light.

In her decision, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Inga M. O'Neale said that a "rational basis" for installing the lane and that its opponents failed to provide factual evidence to back up their arguments against it. The Department of Transportation installed the parking-protected bike lane and removed a vehicle traffic lane on a 1.3-mile stretch of Court Street, from Schermerhorn Street to Hamilton Avenue, last fall.

Repeated reckless New York City drivers could soon be thwarted by technology that will prevent them from far exceeding the speed limit, under new legislation that Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed. The state's top executive, in a policy book accompanying her annual State of the State address on Tuesday, revealed that she plans to introduce a bill during this state legislative session allowing the city to pilot a program requiring the installation of devices in the cars of serial speeders.

New York City motorists with a documented pattern of excessive speeding would be required to install speed-limiting devices inside their cars under a proposed pilot that Gov. Hochul will include in her state budget - a move that takes passage of the long-sought initiative out of the legislative process where it has consistently been thwarted by pro-car lawmakers. If it's successful, the program could be expanded to municipalities across New York to keep recidivist reckless drivers at the speed limit.

Did the Upper Great Highway closure make Sunset neighborhood streets less safe? Supervisor Alan Wong claimed it did at a January 8 press conference, citing a simple year-over-year map comparison of crash data. But my analysis, using the same DataSF crash data with rigorous statistical controls, finds no evidence to support that claim, and if anything, the data suggest the opposite.

There were 25 traffic deaths in 2025 compared to 43 in 2024, largely due to recent initiatives, including daylighting and speed cameras. Nineteen of last year's deaths occurred on the city's Vision Zero High Injury Network, and 16 of the 25 deaths were pedestrians. [SFGate] Instagram users reported receiving mysterious password reset messages Thursday and Friday, either due to a glitch or a recent data breach of over 17.5 million users.