Feds Withhold Fatal-Accident Info from Public
An article in the LA Times (reg required) details how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has systematically withheld information on fatal accidents from the public, even going so far as...
View ArticleIt’s Time for the AP to Nix the Term “Accident” to Describe Car Collisions
The Cleveland Plain Dealer used the term “accident” to describe a fatal hit-and-run collision. The influential Associated Press cautions against using the term “accident,” but that’s not an official...
View ArticleIs This Anti-Speeding PSA Too Real for America?
Wow. This public safety spot from New Zealand really brings home how decisions we casually make while driving can have grave consequences. The PSA questions the whole idea that traffic violence is...
View ArticleMap: Where Buffalo Drivers Smash Into Buildings (Hint: Everywhere)
Cynthia Van Ness, a librarian and host of BuffaloResearch.com, put together the above map, showing the nearly 150 sites where drivers crashed into buildings in the Buffalo region and made the news...
View ArticleDriver Who Killed Cyclist Sues the Dead Teen’s Parents
In a case the Ottawa Citizen called “astonishing evidence of the raw appeal of… victimhood,” a woman who struck and killed a teenage boy riding his bike outside of Toronto is suing the boy’s family for...
View ArticleTrucker in Tracy Morgan Crash: Lay Off, It Was an “Accident”
If my ACCIDENT occurs with no media spotlight i am issued a few traffic tickets. The excuse of me being up 24 hours is complete BS! — Kevin Roper (@Kevinmoneytalks) June 10, 2014 Kevin Roper, the...
View ArticleEven When a Driver Intentionally Causes Mayhem, Media Call It an “Accident”
A witness described seeing the driver of this Prius intentionally back up over the other car, but CBS LA persisted in referring to it as an “accident.” Image: CBS LA The New York Police Department...
View ArticleThe Oregonian: Run a Red Light and Kill 3 Kids? “Just a Tragic Accident”
In February, a pickup truck driver in suburban Eugene, Oregon, ran through a red light at 40 miles an hour, killing three children — 4-year-old Tyler Hudson, 5-year-old McKenzie Hudson, and 8-year-old...
View ArticleMeet a Police Chief Who Actually Says Reckless Driving Won’t Be Tolerated
Hinesburg Police Chief Frank Koss. Photo: Twarogsclass If only more police officials took dangerous driving as seriously as Frank Koss, chief of police in Hinesburg, Vermont. An outraged Koss took to...
View ArticleThis Is What Passes for Traffic “Justice” in America
The “mob” was actually a group of people on bikes trying to flag down a motorist who had hit one of their friends and driven off, dragging his bike. Image: KGTV San Diego Here’s a great example of how...
View ArticleAssociated Press Cautions Journalists That Crashes Aren’t Always “Accidents”
When negligence is claimed or proven, avoid accident, which can be read as exonerating the person responsible. #ACES2016 — AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) April 2, 2016 The Associated Press has tweaked...
View ArticleStreetsblog 101: How Media Help Build Car Culture
This is the latest in Streetsblog’s ongoing feature: Streetsblog 101 — An introductory course on how we got here and what we can do about it. The power of journalistic spin is a formidable force in...
View ArticleThat Viral Dodge Ad Isn’t the First Time Automakers Compared Drivers to...
This isn’t even a new low. A new viral Dodge ad has some street safety advocates outraged at the notoriously aggressive carmaker — but others are pointing out that this is just the latest chapter in...
View ArticleEXCERPT: There are No ‘Accidents’ — We Have Been Fooled into Thinking There Are
As the senior strategist and head writer of Transportation Alternatives, Jessie Singer helped move the phrase “Crash, not accident” from the activist world to the mainstream — a crucial effort to make...
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