The National Transportation Safety Board determined engineering errors are the probable causes of a fatal pedestrian bridge collapse that occurred last year in Miami. Those errors caused the partially constructed 174-foot-long, 950-ton Florida International University pedestrian bridge to crack and subsequently collapse, killing six people and injuring 10 others when it fell onto the street below, […]

Data released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on October 22 indicated that overall highway crash fatalities declined 2.4 percent in 2018 – dropping to 36,560 deaths from 37,473 in 2017 – with the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled decreasing by 3.4 percent; from 1.17 in 2017 to 1.13 in 2018, […]

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials joined 30 other organizations in support of an American Public Transportation Association-led effort to head off potential cuts in public transportation funding. At issue is the Senate’s Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies or THUD 2020 Appropriations bill, which reduces total funding for public […]

The Federal Highway Administration and the Roadway Safety Foundation honored seven highway safety projects in five states with National Roadway Safety Awards as part of a biennial program to highlight successful approaches to improving roadway safety at the state and local level. “While our roads and vehicles have gotten safer over the years, clearly motor […]