FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Drive Safe Hampton Roads Teams up With Community Traffic Safety Groups to Increase Seat Belt Use Among Teens Twenty area high schools met the challenge to increase seat belt use & decrease death & injury. WHO: Drive Safe Hampton Roads and their community partners. For more information: www.drivesafehr.org/git or call (757) 498-2562. Participating…
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Roundabouts (Effect on older drivers)
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia USA, reprinted with permission. Older drivers are more likely than other drivers to be wary of roundabouts, but they also are particularly likely to benefit from them in terms of improved safety. Relative to other age groups, senior drivers are over-involved in crashes occurring at intersections. In 2019,…
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Free 757 Sober LYFT Rides on St. Patrick’s Day
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Free 757 Sober LYFT Rides on St. Patrick's Day In Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg In 2021 in Hampton Roads, over 30% of vehicle fatalities were alcohol related.* Hampton Roads, Va. (March 1, 2023) – The hardest part of St. Patrick’s Day is the mourning after. Plan ahead for a sober ride before…
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Roundabouts (Public opinion)
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia USA, reprinted with permission. Drivers may be skeptical of or even opposed to roundabouts when they are proposed. However, several IIHS studies show that opinions quickly change when drivers become familiar with them. In three communities where single-lane roundabouts replaced stop sign-controlled intersections, 31 percent of drivers supported…
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