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Funding worth $160,000 has been made available in Western Australia to deliver road safety messages to young people.

New grants target young drivers

Funding worth $160,000 has been made available in Western Australia to deliver road safety messages to young people. The Road Safety Commission's Community Initiative Grants...
Child seat and booster use drops when children turn three, according to AAA analysis of five years of government crash data.

New ‘alarming’ data shows child and booster seat use drops when...

With children returning to school after the summer break the US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has offered tips to help keep the roads safe for all.

Back to school road safety tips

A new study has found discrepancies between crash reports and hospital data which could paint an incomplete or inaccurate picture of how crashes impact the safety of child passengers.

Researchers find possible inaccuracies in crash-reported child passenger injuries

With the new school year approaching, the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) has shared important tips for drivers to make sure children get a safe start to the year.

Top safety tips for drivers, parents and caregivers as children return...

Drivers are being warned of the most congested times on the roads this Labor Day weekend.

Best and worst times to drive this Labor Day weekend

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DRIVING FOR WORK

New research looking at ways to increase the number of women truck drivers have been released.

New study looks at ways of attracting more women truck drivers

New research looking at ways to increase the number of women truck drivers have been released. Industry image and perception, training school completion, truck parking...
Using federal crash data from 2016 to 2021, IIHS researchers estimated that equipping every light van on the road with front crash prevention, lane departure prevention, blind spot detection and intelligent speed assistance (ISA) could address 26 per cent of all police-reported crashes, 22 per cent of injury crashes and 37 per cent of fatal crashes involving such vehicles.

IIHS calls for delivery vans to be fitted with better safety...

Equipping the light vans that fulfill America’s online orders with four safety features could prevent or mitigate close to four out of ten fatal...
The most recent data reveals there were 2,066 fatal injuries from transportation incidents in 2022, making up nearly 38 per cent of the total job-related fatalities that year and a rise of just over four per cent from 1,982 in 2021.

Driving leading cause of job-related deaths in the US every year

Driving for work is the leading cause of job-related deaths in the US every year, according to figures from the US Bureau of Labor...
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