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The life of a law enforcement vehicle is brutal. It takes a beating on many different levels, from the speeds at which it routinely is driven to the number of road miles it travels during a 24-hour pe...
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Nearly every state trooper, police officer, deputy sheriff, and constable has arrived on the scene of a tragic motor vehicle crash and been personally changed forever. In 1987, not long after gradu...
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The key to a state having a secure driver license and identification card issuance system is a comprehensive approach that focuses on prevention and deterrence against fraud. From the initial applicat...
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The IACP Highway Safety Committee (HSC) was blessed for more than a quarter of a century with a remarkable leader at the helm—one who served as its guiding light in so many ways. Neither longevity n...
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There are currently 2.3 million hybrid and electric vehicles on the road in the United States.1 Hybrid and electric vehicle sales increased more than 50 percent in March 2012 over the same month in 20...
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In a perfect world, we could drive from here to there in the actual time required to do so at lawful speeds and in obedience to traffic control signals. However, every commuter knows that we do not li...
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National Highway Transportation Safety Administration statistics show that every year in the United States, more people die in traffic crashes than from any other cause not related to disease or illne...
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Simply put, distracted driving is focusing on anything other than driving while driving, and it is contributing to more traffic deaths every year. As a matter of fact, from 1999 to 2008, distracted dr...