Streetsblog USA: Distracting Roadside Safety Billboards May Cause 17K Crashes A Year
USA.Streetsblog.org reports on the troubling findings of a recent study on dynamic billboards. The study, which was published in the April edition of Science, examines how road signs reminding drivers to "dive safe" may actually be causing crashes because they’re too distracting "A new Science Magazine analysis of a Texas campaign found that driving passed a dynamic billboard that displays the number of people killed that year on Lone Star State roads increased a motorists’ c
FAQ: Reporting "Dangerous Drivers"
What do you do when you see a dangerous driver? Legally, there is no obligation to report someone who is driving dangerously. Although it may seem like a waste of time to report something to our clogged and at times unresponsive emergency system, I'd like to encourage you to consider calling 9-1-1 if you see a driver acting dangerously or erratically. What is a "dangerous driver"? People make mistakes when they're driving. They cut people off. They fail to signal a last minut
