World leaders urged to boost road safety

Former NATO chief George Robertson and movie actress Michelle Yeoh urged world leaders Wednesday to treat traffic accidents as though they were a killer disease.

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Overseas Traffic Safety Concern

Driving down a sharp descent in the Tibetan mountains, Mian Chin knew she was in trouble when the brakes failed on her tour bus and she heard the driver declare in Mandarin Chinese, "We are going to die."

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Distracted Driving Poll: Should texting while driving be against the law?

Two good pro and con articles from US News & world Report:

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A tractor-trailer carrying almost 100 cows wrecked around 7 a.m. today in the 4200 block of Jae Valley Road (Virginia 116) in Roanoke County, near the Franklin County line. Both lanes of Va. 116 are expected to be closed until at least 6 p.m. to finish the cleanup.

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Kerry Kavanaugh took action to help you stay safe when you're on the road and found ways you can avoid someone with road rage.

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More people die from traffic accidents than from malaria each year in the developing world but the problem of road safety is being ignored by aid groups and international institutions.

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Concrete statues of children are being placed outside a school in an effort to encourage passing drivers to slow down.

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It seems paradoxical but as the number of cyclists on our city streets increases, the chance of one being injured in a traffic accident actually falls, new research has found.

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Good to see India's Biggest Super Star Amitabh Bachchan interested in Road Sfety

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This was the incredible scene after a car cartwheeled more than 100ft through the air before embedding itself in a first-floor flat.

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Speeding Ticket.

I have been assured by the Source, that this article is 100% True. If it is, I find it VERY scary. See what you think. How's this for a speeding ticket...

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More tragedy as two die on the roads

There was more tragedy on Irish roads overnight with two more fatalities being added to a growing list of statistics - and grieving families. Two pedestrians died in Co Waterford and Co Donegal after being hit by cars during separate road accidents this morning.

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Safety comes first - as provisional drivers loose out

Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern T.D., the Minister for Transport, Mr. Noel Dempsey T.D., and the Minister for Justice Mr. Brian Lennihan T.D.

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Drivers breaking 20mph limits could be caught by new speed cameras if the government accepts advisors' proposals. Local authorities are keen to introduce the cameras, a report by the government's advisors on transport safety says.

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Drivers who smoke at the wheel could face prosecution under changes to the Highway Code. Lighting-up at the wheel has been added to the list of "distractions" which police and lawyers can cite in court when seeking a conviction for a traffic offence.

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The publication of the latest edition of the Highway Code, the first new version for eight years, comes almost 80 years after the booklet first advised UK motorists on road use.

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Road safety campaigners could cut the death rate by lobbying for cars to be made to look more like animals, and for pedestrians at night to use fluorescent markers that highlight the way they move.

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Traffic police in Belgium have taken so much money in fines that they are running out of ways to spend it. The money is supposed to be spent on road safety projects. If that is not done, the cash goes to the government.

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40,000 people die each year in car accidents. They all say that they "drive carefully" or "nothing will happen", "just going few meters". You only need a second of distraction for anything to be happening.

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The dangers posed by lorries to cyclists and pedestrians are to be highlighted in a road safety event. Two lorries will be parked in Trafalgar Square, central London, to allow other road users to see first hand how limited a lorry driver's vision is.

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Speed cameras may be the curse of many road users but a group of schoolchildren and their parents are convinced they are life savers.

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Should smokers be allowed to smoke in cars? Should churches have to display no smoking signs? OPINION RELATING TO THIS ITEM

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In California and across the nation, where some freeway shoulders have come to resemble weekend yard sales, the nature of road debris has changed, and litter anthropologists are now studying the phenomenon.

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THE lives of hundreds of British drivers are being put at risk because the latest anti-skid technology is not automatically installed on new cars, it was revealed last night.

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Road traffic accidents, not Aids, cancer or any other disease, are the biggest killer of young people worldwide, experts warn. Nearly 400,000 young people under the age of 25 are killed in road traffic crashes every year. Millions more are injured or disabled.

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COUNCIL bosses have been branded "bonkers" after putting up road signs in Polish to stop migrant drivers getting confused. Highways chiefs agreed to the move to help Poles who cannot understand English.

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High-pressure car washers are putting lives at risk by making tyres susceptible to blow-outs, safety experts have warned. Jets of water from the machines can damage and degrade the tyre wall if aimed directly at it for as little as five seconds.

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