Automobile Accidents

• Keep Your Family Safe In The Neighborhood

  Bret Hanna | October 06, 2011 10:03 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Although the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration does not keep statistics on non-crash, non-traffic fatalities, an organization started by a passionate mother of two children does....

• KidsAndCars.org Does Amazing Work

  Bret Hanna | August 26, 2011 12:14 AM | 1 CommentSalt Lake City, UT

  It started with a horrifying experience for a family, and progressed to the formation of a powerful voice for prevention of auto related childhood injuries and deaths. In 1995, Janette Fennell and...

• The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Turns 50 - Watch this Video

  Bret Hanna | August 05, 2011 6:31 PM | 1 CommentSalt Lake City, UT

  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The Institute describes itself this way on its website: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an...

• An Urgent Plea to Drivers and Cyclists: Share the Road

  Mark Williams | June 09, 2011 12:28 AM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  We were sadly reminded this week of the dangers facing cyclist anytime they share the road with motor vehicles. Two bike riders were hit this week in Salt Lake County-- one seriously injured and the...

• A Sober Reminder to Drive Safely in Bad Weather

  Bret Hanna | June 08, 2011 10:36 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  A tragic legal saga came to an end yesterday in a Richfield courtroom in the wake of a deadly April 29, 2010, accident on Interstate 70. Sgt. Franco Aguilar, a Sevier County sheriff's officer, was...

• 2010 A Better Year On Utah's Highways

  Bret Hanna | January 12, 2011 11:21 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  According to statistics reported today in the Salt Lake Tribune, deaths on Utah's highways declined in 2010 for the third straight year. The numbers reported by the Utah Department of Transportation...

• Do Texting While Driving Bans Work?

  Bret Hanna | October 07, 2010 11:23 PM | 1 CommentSalt Lake City, UT

  Texting while driving and other forms of distracted driving have increased exponentially with the explosion of new forms of inexpensive technology that keep us all connected 24/7. Unfortunately, if...

• Wrong Way, Turn Around

  Bret Hanna | August 23, 2010 11:32 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  A fiery crash on Interstate 215 in Salt Lake County last week claimed the life of one driver and seriously injured the second. An elderly gentleman drove his Toyota Camry the wrong way on the belt...

• Utah Highway Patrol Releases Dash Cam Video Of Fatal Accident Involving One Of Its Own

  Bret Hanna | April 27, 2010 10:53 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  I did a post last month about several accidents that led to a final fatal accident miles away. Terrible weather on March 10th along the I-15 corridor north of St. George was cited as a contributing...

• NPR And Utah Researcher Are Not Only Foes Of Distracted Driving

  Bret Hanna | March 25, 2010 11:20 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  This follows-up on my post earlier this week about the Applied Cognition Laboratory at the University of Utah joining forces with NPR's Car Talk to combat distracted driving. The Applied Cognition...