Police are still looking for a white van that was involved in a hit-and-run with a school bus in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, Wednesday, January 18th at around 2:50 p.m. near Harrison and Cesar Chavez streets. If you have information regarding this hit-and-run please immediately contact the San Francisco Police Department.
The school bus was carrying 20 children. Luckily, no one was injured. The other vehicle, a white van, drove off after the collision and the driver has not been found, according to CHP Officer Kevin Bartlett.
I regard hit-and-run drivers as a special kind of criminal. To negligently hit…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommends a ban on all personal electronic devices while driving. Despite the new fines imposed in California for texting-while-driving from a cell phone while driving an automobile, I still hear about fatal accidents and serious personal injuries which result from this most obvious form of distracted driving.
I am supportive of NTSB’s recent decision to recommend a national ban on the usage of all personal electronic devices while driving a motor vehicle.
NTSB bases its decision on findings from various national statistics on distracted driving, as I have also discussed in the past. …
Distracted driving statistics continue to rise, as I’ve discussed before. The accident rate is, in fact, surpassing the drunk driving rate, recent studies have shown. Texting while driving is, in my opinion, the most insidious forms of distracted driving.
Still, drivers continue to cause accidents that could have been prevented were they not on their cell phone texting–performing all main forms of distraction:
visual (taking your eyes off the road)
manual (taking your hands off the wheel)
cognitive (taking your mind off what you’re doing).
According to consumer reports, drunk driving rates are dropping significantly. The speculation is that distracted…
Recently, the National Transportation Safety Board held a two-day forum to discuss commercial trucking and busing safety among federal regulators, industry representatives and safety advocates. The Associated Press reports that the focus of the forum was prevention of deadly accidents and understanding why past safety recommendations have not been enacted or implemented yet.
The number of fatal commercial-trucking accidents has decreased in recent years. In 2005 there were more than 5,200 fatalities from semi-truck accidents, while in 2009 there were about 3,200, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Although this represents some progress in improving commercial-truck safety, NTSB member…
