Decades of evidence that technology like speed cameras reliably reduces car crashes on the corridors where they're sited — not to mention their potential to reduce dangerous encounters between BIPOC and human officers — but automated enforcement...
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Speed controls, redesigned intersections can save lives of walkers and cyclists, Rutgers professor says
Vehicles killed 7,342 pedestrians, the equivalent of 40 passenger jets falling from the sky and an increase from 4,092 a year earlier, but the jump in deaths isn't a one-year aberration. Kelcie Ralph, an associate professor at Rutgers University who studies...
Why Do So Many News Articles About Crashes Feel Like They Were Written by a Car?
News organizations need to relearn how to cover car collisions—especially when the victims are on foot. On the evening of Nov. 13, Roy Saravia Alvarez was walking home along the sidewalk of West Glebe Road in Alexandria, Virginia. At around 8 p.m., the driver of a...
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