On March 25, 2014, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the Medina Alert system into law for the entire state of Colorado, extending it beyond the initial coverage areas in the cities of Denver and Aurora. The system, which alerts the public about hit-and-run accidents, is the first of its kind in …
The other day, I saw a driver just blow through a stop sign at a four-way stop. Worse, she proceeded to do the same thing all the way down the avenue, running stop sign after stop sign as though they were just gentle suggestions that she could ignore. Unfortunately, this …
When you think of rear-end car accidents, most of us think, “fender bender.” But we recently had a case in which a person who was driving a Jeep Cherokee got hit from behind by a Ford utility van and the Jeep’s rear-end was pushed all the way up into the …
Accidents happen, and they can happen to anyone at any time. That’s a fact of life, but dealing with the accident and helping the injured person is not only the right thing to do as a compassionate citizen, it’s also the law. Unfortunately, people don’t always do the right (or …
We’ve compiled a timeline of 60 years of traffic safety changes, with an infographic we put together based primarily on the NHTSA 60 year report on car accidents in the US that recently came out.
Traffic Laws Timeline
1950 Seatbelts introduced
1955 Over 1,000,000 traffic-related deaths since invention of the
