Companies Pledge Millions in Fed Effort to Stem Road Deaths February 7, 2023 By Hope Yen Nearly 50 businesses and nonprofits – including rideshare companies Uber and Lyft, industrial giant 3M and automaker Honda – are...
Buttigieg Sends $5 Billion to Cities for Safety as Road Deaths Soar May 17, 2022 By Hope Yen With upcoming data showing traffic deaths soaring, the Biden administration is steering $5 billion in federal aid to cities and...
Traffic Fatalities Continue on Record Pace But not in All States February 21, 2022 By Hope Yen The number of U.S. traffic deaths surged in the first nine months of 2021 to 31,720, keeping up a record...
As Road Fatalities Spike, States Get Funds for Safety Enforcement and Speed Cameras February 4, 2022 By Hope Yen Drivers, beware: Speed cameras could be on their way to a location near you thanks to President Joe Biden’s infrastructure...
Traffic Fatalities Continue on Record Pace But Not in All States February 3, 2022 By Hope Yen The number of U.S. traffic deaths surged in the first nine months of 2021 to 31,720, the government reported Tuesday,...
Transportation Safety Chief Objects to Use of Driver Error Statistic January 20, 2022 By Tom Krisher and Hope Yen With traffic fatalities spiking higher, the nation’s top safety investigator says a widely cited government statistic that 94% of serious...
U.S. Auto Safety Agency Faces Backlog of Rules and Missed Deadlines October 19, 2021 By Hope Yen and Tom Krisher After their 16-year-old daughter died in a car crash, David and Wendy Mills wondered whether she would be alive if...
Engineers Grade U.S. Infrastructure C- as Biden, Congress Prepare to Debate Fix March 5, 2021 By Hope Yen America’s infrastructure has scored near-failing grades for its deteriorating roads, public transit and storm water systems due to years of...
Report Questions U.S. Readiness, Coordination to Handle Major Disaster December 24, 2014 By Hope Yen The U.S. government isn’t fully prepared to handle a nuclear terrorist attack or a large-scale natural catastrophe, lacks effective coordination,...
Chemcial Plants with Terrroism Risk ‘Effectively Unregulated,’ Says Senate Report July 31, 2014 By Hope Yen The government has failed to inspect virtually all of the chemical facilities that it considers to be at a higher...