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Safety on the Roads, by Dave Werner

E-scooters redefine tourist risk

Anidjar & Levine, Personal Injury and Accident Lawyers in Florida, analyzed new federal safety data to understand if “micro mobility” vehicles such as e-scooters and e-bikes are safe for people exploring U.S. cities. What they found is not what tourists expected. As the use of ...

IIHS gives high scores to 16 more models

Sixteen 2025 and 2026 models from 12 different brands earned Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick+ awards in the latest round of vehicle ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The Top Safety Pick+ winners include the Audi A6 Sportback e-tron, Audi All-new Q5, Audi All-new ...

Test your vehicle and traffic law I.Q. — 2026 answers

Last week’s column presented 20 questions on vehicle and traffic law (VTL) and traffic safety. Hopefully you took the test and kept your answers. This column repeats the questions and gives the correct answers. I hope you got at least 90% correct. - True or False - 1. If your vehicle ...

Test your vehicle and traffic law IQ — 2026

In July 2025, I had the privilege of speaking to the Police Academy in Plattsburgh, where new police officers receive a 6-month training course before they return to their agency and begin their career of enforcement. At the end of my presentation, I gave the students a number of questions on ...

Speed cameras changing driver behavior in Syracuse

During 2025, six of these weekly articles have focused on cameras that photograph vehicles speeding in school speed limits in Albany and Syracuse. Now, information from the Syracuse Post Standard shows that recently installed cameras are having a positive effect on reducing the number of ...

Seat belts — do you always wear them? You should.

Nearly half of the people killed on U.S. roads in 2023 were not wearing seat belts. That year, 17,872 vehicles in fatal crashes involved unbelted occupants, according to a new analysis from Pegasus Legal Capital, LLC, a legal funding company in Florida that provides competitive, low-risk cash ...