Some day in the future when people who pay close attention to the government bureaucracy and high-placed regulators within it are asked to think of a high-ranking official who was consumer-friendly and unabashedly activist, the name of Ray LaHood might come to mind for many of them. LaHood, who announced earlier this week that…
The widely accepted notion about new safety features and vehicle enhancements is that they are drastically improving driver and passenger safety. And there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that: Safety advancements such as anti-lane drift technology, rear-view cameras, emergency brake assists and others have been designed in hopes of preventing thousands of car accidents…
Manufacturing and industrial worksites can be flatly dangerous places in which to work, as evidenced by safety-related numbers and statistics issuing from diverse federal and state organizations tasked with oversight of worker safety. Construction accidents and other on-the-job injuries can arise from any number and type of unsafe conditions involving moving equipment, electrical wires,…
A recent release of data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that 2012 brought the largest increase in traffic fatalities seen since 1975. This alarming trend brings an abrupt end to a decade-long decline in deaths resulting from car accidents and leads some to wonder whether lawmakers have put traffic safety programs…
Ohio is a major hub of interstate commercial truck traffic, with a heavy volume of trucks busily on the move at all times, and state and federal policy makers and transportation regulators are always closely tuned in to safety-related policies, debates and initiatives. The American Trucking Associations (ATA), a key voice within the commercial…
For years, electric vehicles have put Ohio residents and others nationally at risk for pedestrian accidents, bicycle accidents and car accidents. At slow speeds, electric cars are nearly impossible to hear. Not realizing a car is coming, pedestrians and cyclists start to cross a street or pass behind a driveway without checking for traffic….
When a crane collapses at a construction project in Ohio or elsewhere across the United States, it tends to a big deal. The reasons for that are many and obvious. Cranes can be flatly frightening for their size and weight, with some of them weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds and extending for hundreds…
A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that one in 24 American drivers admits to having fallen asleep behind the wheel within the past month of being surveyed. Drowsy driving is a dangerous driving behavior that can significantly increase a person’s risk of being involved in a car…
Ohio and a host of other states have DUI courts, and that instrument for addressing problem drinking and the heavy toll that drunk drivers exact in serious and often fatal car accidents is a growing phenomenon that is steadily gaining traction in jurisdictions across the country. Officials from the NHTSA say that fatal car…