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The staff at Editor and Publisher (E&P) announced on February 08, 2011 that “The Bay Citizen in San Francisco has launched a bike accident tracker on its website, BayCitizen.org.” P &E also reports that the user-friendly interactive map shows viewers, “every bicycle accident that has been reported to the police in nearly two years.”   Here…

Some of you may have heard of the group FocusDriven, an advocacy unit for victims of motor vehicle crashes that involve drivers using cell phones.  The goal of FocusDriven is to make roadways safer for all motorists and the method by which they deliver their powerful message is an extraordinary one. Basically the idea of…

In today’s San Francisco Chronicle an accident involving seven people was reported at the intersection of Jones and Sutter streets on February 6, 2011 around 2 a.m. Although several details remain unclear, the report does reveal that at least seven people were sent to the hospital “when a taxicab and limousine collided early Sunday morning…

According to the National Safety Commission, “Crashes at intersections cause the most fatalities than any other type of crash location.”  First of all—I must admit that this particular statement did not surprise me much, given my chosen profession. But what did surprise me was the next line I read on the Commission’s website, “Not only…

The San Francisco Police Department announced on their website that a “pre-Super Bowl sobriety checkpoint is set for San Francisco on Saturday, Feb. 5, at Geary Blvd. and Steiner St.”  The checkpoint also “begins at 8:30 p.m. and ends at 1 a.m.” With the big game just a couple of days away, drivers can expect…

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute posted the following findings in this month about cell-phone laws in the United States.  The information below can also be found here http://www.iihs.org/default.html. After taking an initial look at the laws below regarding cell-phone use on American roadways, I began to ponder exactly…