Pedestrian safety - Articles - Page 2

“Vulnerable road users” get special attention from NTSB

February 28, 2019

Motorcyclists and pedestrians were the focus of two recent National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports which used analyses from accident investigations to form recommendations to enhance safety for the two groups going forward. Motorcyclists—motorcycle riders and their passengers—have the highest risk of fatal injury among all motor vehicle users.

Did modifications doom stretch limo passengers?

February 19, 2019

Did changes that allowed a 2001 Ford Excursion stretch limousine to carry 18 people contribute to the horrific death toll in an October 6, 2018 accident in upstate New York? That’s one of the question the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is attempting to answer in its investigation into the tragedy, which killed the driver and all 18 passengers in the limo – many of them related to each other – and also claimed the lives of two pedestrians.

Kids on way to school endangered by morning darkness

February 8, 2019

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating three separate accidents from October 2018 in which children on their way to school were struck and killed by motor vehicles. The trio of tragedies had one thing in common: all occurred when children were crossing a road during early morning darkness. One occurred around 7:12 a.m., on Tuesday, October 30, 2018, near where a school bus in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, stopped to pick up students at the designated location.

Learning a lesson about pedestrian safety

A walk on the wild side

Dave Johnson

April 16, 2018

I’ve never given much thought to pedestrian safety because I’ve never been in harm’s way or seen pedestrians at risk. That’s until two months ago. In February I attended a conference in Houston.

Distracted walking gets teen hit by train

March 19, 2018

Police don’t think alcohol or drugs were a factor in an incident Sunday in Westland, Michigan in which a pedestrian was hit by a train. A cell phone was to blame.

Time to refocus: Odds of accidentally dying are getting worse

National Safety Council digitizes nearly 100 years of injury and fatality data to help Americans understand their greatest safety challenges

March 1, 2018

While many Americans fear flying, violence and natural disasters, the odds of dying from preventable, everyday incidents are far greater – the greatest ever, in fact, in United States history. A person’s lifetime odds of dying from any unintentional cause have risen to one in 25 – up from odds of one in 30 in 2004, according to National Safety Council analysis.

U.S. traffic deaths increased in 2016

October 9, 2017

Fatalities caused by distracted driving decreased in 2016, while deaths related to other reckless behaviors – including speeding, alcohol impairment, and not wearing seat belts – continued to increase, according to new figures released by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

SAFETY BARRIER

Safety barrier from Omega Industrial Products

May 1, 2017

Omega Industrial Products is introducing a first-of-its-kind pedestrian safety barrier in the US: the R U F (Roll-Up-Fence) is an innovative solution to protect dangerous worksites and pedestrian traffic zones.

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY BARRIER

R-U-F (Roll-Up-Fence) by Omega Industrial Products

April 1, 2017

Omega Industrial Products is introducing a new, first-of-its-kind pedestrian safety barrier in the US: the R-U-F (Roll-Up-Fence) is an innovative solution to protect dangerous worksites and pedestrian traffic zones.

How should quiet electric vehicles alert pedestrians?

November 23, 2016

U.S. regulators recently adopted a new rule that will force electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers to include a device in their EVs to emit a sound at up to 19 mph to protect pedestrians starting in 2019.