Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Carnage

Map: Where Buffalo Drivers Smash Into Buildings (Hint: Everywhere)

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 10, 2014 | 17 Comments

Cynthia Van Ness, a librarian and host of BuffaloResearch.com, put together the above map, showing the nearly 150 sites where drivers crashed into buildings in the Buffalo region and made the news since 2006. The map includes links to the media coverage of the incidents, and Van Ness points out how reporters and editors tend […]

What Should Doctors Do to Prevent Traffic Deaths?

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 13, 2014 | 40 Comments

When cars first became a common presence in American cities, doctors were shocked by the carnage. In 1925, editors of the New England Journal of Medicine called the bloodshed caused by motorists “appalling” and lamented children’s loss of life as “a massacre of the innocent.” The sense of urgency was still detectable a few decades later. […]

Midtown Movie Car Chase Ends with Car Jumping Curb, Injuring Two

By Sarah Goodyear | May 4, 2009 | 20 Comments

The New York Post has posted shocking video of a movie car chase being filmed in Times Square that ended with a car losing control, jumping the curb and injuring two pedestrians. (Warning: this includes some graphic images): Fortunately, according to the AP, the pedestrians’ injuries were not life-threatening. It’s not clear how tightly the […]

“Vision Zero”: Not One More Traffic Death

By Brad Aaron | Oct 1, 2007 | 9 Comments

Airline safety has improved dramatically in the last 10 years, after two 1996 crashes killed 375 people. “This is the golden age of safety, the safest period, in the safest mode, in the history of the world.” That’s Marion C. Blakey, former administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, speaking last month just before the end […]

Studies Refute DOT’s Claim That One-Way Avenues Are Safer

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 22, 2007 | 5 Comments

Prospect Park West at 8th Street, September 16, 2006, 9:45 am. "Higher vehicle speeds are strongly associated with a greater likelihood of crashes involving pedestrians as well as more serious pedestrian injuries." American Journal of Public Health Last Thursday, DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia presented a plan to turn a pair of two-way avenues running […]