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More than 17,000 people die and half a million are injured every year from an entirely preventable cause of death, alcohol-related crashes. That's one death every half hour. Research shows that the be...
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“Tougher impaired driving laws, and the enforcement of those laws by tens of thousands of dedicated police officers across the country, are saving hundreds of lives nationwide,” said Jeffrey W. Ru...
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In August 10, 2004, U. S. Department of Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta announced the results of the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Annual Assessment for 2003. The secretary annou...
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Police departments have found creative ways to enforce traffic laws. Ten years ago, police in Boulder, Colorado, increased compliance with speed laws by stationing a plainclothes officer with a radar ...
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Every summer, every holiday season, and during every national mobilization, you find it's time to intensify your agency's attention to traffic safety issues. But the key to an effective, results-orien...
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Not since the oil embargo of several decades ago has U.S. law enforcement faced such a serious challenge from rising petroleum costs. The price of gasoline at the retail pumps has risen above $2 per g...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has sponsored several studies in the last 30 years that attempt to identify causes of roadway collisions. Research consistently reports that ...
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Although the traffic fatality rate has dropped dramatically since the mid-1960s, traffic crashes account for 95 percent of all transportation-related deaths and 99 percent of transportation-related in...
