Over the past few years I have written several articles on the benefits of roundabouts over traditional intersections with traffic signals and stop signs. With input from a January article in “The Villages Daily Sun” Florida newspaper, here is more information showing the safety features ...

Last week’s Safety on the Roads column was about the Safe System Approach to speeding. In November a column was about “Intelligent Speed Assistance.” Today we’ll discuss some of the dangers of speed, courtesy of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. More than 11,000 deaths — ...

The most recent annual tally of carnage on our roads is sobering: an estimated 43,000 people killed in 2021. That’s more than the year before, which was more than the year before that. Fatal crashes jumped during the pandemic, but we have been trending in the wrong direction for several ...

Last week’s article presented 20 questions on vehicle and traffic law, traffic control devices and traffic safety. Hopefully you took the test and kept your answers handy. This article repeats the questions and includes the answers. See how you did. - True or false - 1. Turning left ...

An annual winter feature of the weekly “Did You Know” columns is a 20-question quiz on vehicle and traffic law (VTL), traffic control devices (TCDs) and traffic safety. The first 10 questions are true/false and questions 11-20 are multiple choice. If you follow the weekly Did You Know ...

Most of us have been taught that sitting in the back seat is safer than sitting in the front. That was true in years past, but is no longer true now. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has done some crash testing and the results spotlight lagging protection for rear ...