Blog: Pedestrian Accidents

Traffic safety is a crucial component of transportation as roadway developers are seeking to improve the driving experience to ensure drivers reach their destinations without harm. Traffic accidents injure, disable, and claim the lives of more than one hundred thousand drivers, passengers, and pedestrians every year. By improving roadway design, engineers are hoping to prevent […]

At the 2017 Australasian Road Safety Conference in Perth, Australia, a researcher from Queensland University of Technology’s Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety – Queensland presented his research on driver caution levels when approaching and crossing railways, compared with their caution levels with road intersections. He identified a few reasons for this lack of […]

A fatal pedestrian accident blocked Route 38 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on Thursday morning. Around 6:30 am, the pedestrian was struck on Route 38 and Longwood Avenue, and succumbed to fatal injuries at the scene of the crash. No further details are available regarding the fatal pedestrian accident. During the busy morning commute on […]

Commercially available self-driving cars are being touted as one of the next great innovations in transportation technology. Many individuals are not quite ready to accept the prospect of sharing the road with non-human drivers. A recent crash involving Uber’s self-driving car in Arizona demonstrated that these vehicles can be involved in accidents just like human-driven vehicles […]

Sadly, the instance of car accidents involving pedestrians continue to be reported daily. Nearly all fatal pedestrian crashes are unintentional, and most are caused by distracted driving. Even a driver traveling as slowly as ten miles per hour can severely injure a pedestrian. The trend of increasing fatal pedestrian crashes continues throughout the country. According […]