The Texas Department of Transportation’s Mission Zero initiative, which the agency announced in May 2019, aims to cut traffic deaths in the Lone Star State in half by 2035 and eliminate them completely by 2050. Preliminary data from the Governors Highway Safety...
Month: May 2020
Passengers are safer than drivers and pedestrians, study says
In a study conducted by the Governors Highway Safety Association, Texas was one of five states accounting for 47% of national pedestrian deaths in the first half of 2019. Those five states, though sizable, comprise only 33% of the national population, meaning that...
How drivers can avoid road rage incidents
Road rage incidents are not uncommon in Texas. Drivers may think it will not happen to them, but a small gesture is sometimes all it takes to initiate the conflict. Below are a few tips on how to defuse anger both in one's self and in the other motorist. Drivers...
Let’s face it, people don’t care about car accidents
Most people care about a car accident if they are in one or if a loved one is involved. Maybe they glance over news stories about dramatic accidents and think about how tragic they are. But, on the whole, people just do not care enough about car accidents to worry...