Posts tagged traffic

• Start Seeing Motorcycles - BEFORE You Hit Them

  Lindsay Rakers | March 20, 2012 12:32 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Louis, MO Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Riding a motorcycle is one of the most dangerous means of highway transportation. According to the latest data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, motorcyclists account...

• Are New Air Traffic Controllers To Blame for Increase In Near Collisions?

  Brett Emison | July 06, 2010 10:43 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  I have written about the poor training, maintenance and oversight at smaller regional airlines before (here and here). Now, ABC News has reported on another flying danger -- young, inexperienced air...

• Toyota Sudden Acceleration Recall Spurs Tougher Auto Safety Bill

  Brett Emison | May 05, 2010 2:12 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Toyota's deadly sudden acceleration problem -- full coverage here -- that caused Toyota to shut down production and recall more than 10 million vehicles worldwide has spurred Congress to propose...

• What?!? Child Directs Air Traffic Control At JFK Airport

  Brett Emison | March 05, 2010 10:33 AM | 3 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  According to reports from CNN and The Wall Street Journal, an air traffic controller and his supervisor at the John F. Kennedy airport in New York allowed the controller's 10-year-old son to send...

• Toyota Recall: Safety Research & Strategies Releases Full Report On Sudden Acceleration Problem

  Brett Emison | February 05, 2010 2:38 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Sean Kane and the excellent staff members at Safety Research & Strategies have been documenting the sudden acceleration (aka sudden unintended acceleration or SUA) problems that have plagued...

• Toyota Recall: Another Acceleration Crash; But Toyota Denies Defect

  Brett Emison | February 02, 2010 11:29 AM | 15 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  After ignoring the sudden acceleration problem for more than five years, Toyota has expanded its multiple gas pedal recalls of more than 9 million vehicles for a fifth time to include Toyota...

• Toyota Recall: Are NHTSA Investigators Partially To Blame?

  Brett Emison | February 02, 2010 11:16 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  After ignoring the sudden acceleration problem for more than five years, Toyota has expanded its multiple gas pedal recalls of more than 9 million vehicles for a fifth time to include Toyota...

• Missouri Highway Deaths Fall Due To Enforcement, Education, Engineering, High Gas Prices

  Brett Emison | January 23, 2010 11:35 AM | 3 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The St. Joe News, of St. Joseph, Missouri, has reported that Missouri traffic deaths in 2009 fell to their lowest numbers since 1950. The Missouri Highway Patrol credits the reduction in traffic...