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Florida’s Highway Safety Plan – Survey
Below is a survey of Florida’s top Highway Safety Professionals. The survey was done as part of the work in developing Florida’s Highway Safety Plan in 2007. More on the plan at...
View ArticleHow to all but eliminate car crashes!
The Best Kept Secret In Highway Safety By Scott L.Shaw, P.E. As I approach my 42th year in public safety as a Traffic Engineer I am shocked at how many hundreds of billions (if not trillions)...
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Below is a summary from a recent GHSA study on speed-related crashes. In the first paragraph we see that the proportion of accidents where speeding is evident has not changed. Yes, total car crashes...
View ArticleRed Light Cameras generating millions in ill will
Just read a front page article in our morning paper entitled: “Cameras are budget boon”. The subtitle went on to read, “Municipalities cull millions from red light scofflaws; crash numbers plunge”....
View ArticleWhat’s worse, family being killed in auto crash or by gun?
There is not a person that uses our highways that doesn’t know we can do better———– better at providing for safe roads. Agressive and distracted drivers are the problem. How many times have you felt...
View ArticleBicycle Safety Takes Some Common Sense
Just passed a bicyclist riding on one our busiest two lane roads ……………………………. at 5:30 in the afternoon. It was clear that he was joy riding or just exercising. In other words he didn’t need to be...
View ArticleDon’t forget the 2700 lost on our highways every month
This morning I responded to a rather innocuous comment on my facebook. The string started with a friend saying a good word for the actor Michael Duncan, who passed away over the weekend. Then in...
View ArticleHow to eliminate almost all traffic crashes!
Read an article in the paper recently about a 3 year old getting hit by a passing auto driver when the baby ran out in the road. I wonder if a parent was close by; if the driver was listening to the...
View Article1/4 of all traffic fatalities in Fla are pedestrians
Yesterday I heard a commercial produced by the Fla. DOT that was aimed at car drivers telling them to drive more defensively especially when entering a pedestrian X-walk. It went on to say 1/4 of all...
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