Women with Driver’s Licenses Now Outnumber Men November 20, 2012 By Joan Lowy Women have passed men on the nation’s roads. More women than men now have driver’s licenses, a reversal of a...
Traffic Deaths Spike 13.5% in First Quarter July 23, 2012 By Joan Lowy Traffic deaths soared 13.5 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period last year, and...
Talking Cars, or V2V, May Help Humans Avoid Crashes June 11, 2012 By Joan Lowy As a safety demonstration, it was a heart-stopper: A Ford Taurus was seconds away from cruising through an intersection when...
Feds Shut Down 26 Bus Operators in Safety Crackdown June 1, 2012 By Joan Lowy Twenty-six bus operations that transported more than 1,800 passengers a day along Interstate 95 between New York and Florida have...
Federal Aviation Safety Regulators Ignore Whistleblowers: Watchdog May 10, 2012 By Joan Lowy The Federal Aviation Administration has repeatedly dragged its feet in responding to whistleblower complaints about safety problems and stronger oversight...
NTSB Focuses on Driver Texting in Missouri Crash December 14, 2011 By Joan Lowy A texting pickup truck driver who caused a deadly highway pileup in Missouri last year has federal accident investigators taking...
Lawmakers Block Safety Rules for Lithium Battery Shipments December 5, 2011 By Joan Lowy Lawmakers responded to pleas from industry and foreign governments on Friday with a tentative agreement to block the Obama administration...
Safety Oversght of Government Aircraft Lacking November 30, 2011 By Joan Lowy Nonmilitary government agencies operate more aircraft than the world’s largest airline but are subject to little federal safety oversight —...
Probe Into Montana Oil Spill Cause to Take Months July 18, 2011 By Joan Lowy A federal safety official says it will probably be months before investigators know what caused an ExxonMobil oil pipeline to...
Safety Advocates, Industry Spar Over Bus, Truck Safety Rules May 13, 2011 By Joan Lowy On a clear June afternoon, a tractor-trailer truck crested a small rise on a stretch of interstate highway in Oklahoma....