Topic: Traffic Accidents
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New Chicago Plan: Pedestrians Come First
The city's new Complete Streets Design Guidelines creates a paradigm shift in how road crews and transportation workers should look at shared streets.
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The Latest Bleak Evidence That Crossing the Street Is Hazardous to Your Health
Two new studies suggest you may not be safe inside a crosswalk.
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Videos
Vigilante Justice of the Day: The Russian Bus Driver They Call the 'Punisher'
Bus operator Alexei Volkov claims to have precipitated more than 100 traffic accidents – mostly just to teach rude drivers a lesson.
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Charts
In Minneapolis, Reducing Bike Crashes by Studying Them in Detail
A new analysis of accidents from 2000-2010 finds that drivers and riders share equal fault, but not equal suffering.
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Videos
Why Does This Canadian Bridge Keep Trying to Kill People?
The widest bridge in the world, the Vancouver-area Port Mann span, is failing its debut in a spectacular fashion.
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Year in Review
The Nastiest Cyclist vs. Driver Videos of 2012
The Battle of the Commute rages on, as this painful-to-watch footage shows.
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Videos
Segway Accidents: An Ongoing Crisis?
Segway Inc. has fallen out of the news. Perhaps it shouldn't have.
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Videos
A Traffic Light That Makes Road Rage Excusable
The green is only a second long.
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Videos
Durham's Bridge of Death Will Decapitate Any Tall Truck
For years, a North Carolina man has documented an 11-foot-8-inch-tall bridge's amazingly destructive effect on passing traffic.
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Can Altering a Stoplight's Yellow Signal Help Save Lives?
Take a trip to the "dilemma zone," the strip of road where auto accidents are born.
