#road-safety

#road-safety

A very warm period of weather will develop through the weekend and into next week for much of the UK. High pressure will be in charge of the UK's weather over the bank holiday weekend, and this should bring fine and settled conditions to most areas. The exception will be parts of northwestern Scotland where it will be cooler and cloudier with some rain at times. There is also a small risk of some thunder in the south late on Friday into Saturday.

Cllr. Declan Power told the meeting that while he welcomed the council's continued efforts to tackle potholes, the finished condition of many repairs was falling short. "The workmanship is not great," he said, describing how some repaired sections of road as very uneven. "When you look at them, they resemble a patchwork quilt."

Fears have been expressed by several councillors that a serious accident will occur on a busy road in North Cork if adequate funding is not provided. At a previous Northern Committee meeting the elected members had unanimously raised concerns about the number of accidents occurring at the N72 Firville to Newberry Junction and queried if funding could be provided for the junction.

Last year, at the age of 35, I decided it was time to grow up and get my driver's licence. I had considered it before, but it had never stuck. As a teenager, I thought driving was scary and significantly less cool than sitting on the bus, listening to the same eight songs on my MP3 player. As a news reporter in my 20s, not driving was inconvenient to both me and my editors, but so was spending days off learning how to parallel park.

Many local government leaders across the country know the types of street designs that reduce the number of severe crashes, but they keep delaying the changes because they're waiting for money. Waiting for a big federal grant. Waiting for a full reconstruction project. Waiting for the perfect, permanent solution. But while Americans wait, people keep getting hurt.

Driving under the influence of nitrous oxide is an emerging threat to the safety of motorists on our roads. Its use can cause unconsciousness and even neurological damage or death from suffocation of the oxygen supply to the brain. Tragically, our officers have already seen deaths connected to drivers who were under the influence of NOS. The innovative device is being tested by our officers to see if it can be used to detect if a driver is under the influence of this harmful drug. If successful, this could lead these motorists to be prosecuted for drug driving offences.

Incredibly, the annual number of breath tests carried out in the last 15 years has plummeted as the number of drivers has skyrocketed.

A newly constructed ramp connecting the Mass Pike to I-495 in central Massachusetts opened overnight Monday, ahead of the Tuesday morning commute. Previously, motorists accessed all I-495 exits from a single point. Under the new system, those traveling I-90 westbound and heading for I-495 southbound will encounter the first exit, with a second exit following for those merging onto I-495 northbound, according to an advisory from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

A banned driver who killed a bride-to-be just hours after she had been shopping for her dream wedding dress has been jailed for five years. Sean Connaughton (54), was already banned from the road for four years, for not being insured, when he drove over Laura Connolly.

Roughly 90% of the conflict calls that lead to bear deaths trace back to one thing: unsecured human food. The Lake Tahoe Basin is where that pattern is most visible.

The driver was turning left from Lee Avenue on Lorimer Street just after 8 a.m. when he fatally struck the boy crossing the street, an NYPD spokesman said.

Kirubananthan drove recklessly and at high speeds leading up to the crash, reaching a speed of 136 km/h and driving in the wrong lane, which ultimately resulted in the fatal collision.

Gardaí and emergency services were alerted to a collision involving a pedestrian and a car at Killallon Road on the L6821, Clonmellon, Co Westmeath.

More than 18,000 vehicles are being used in the UK without proper records of where their owners live, part of an increasing problem of ghost owners who cannot be held accountable for their driving.

The real problem is infrastructure, not vehicle safety. Roadways are open systems with infinite variables—weather, pedestrians, distracted drivers, and aging infrastructure. Communication between vehicles is minimal, and infrastructure is largely silent—and in that gap lies the potential for deadly collisions.

The overcrowded passenger bus skidded off the road and rolled down a steep, rocky slope into a gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir, resulting in at least 21 deaths.

The pedestrian was taken from the scene to Cork University Hospital where he has since died. Forensic Collision investigators attended the scene of the incident and an examination took place.

Gardaí caught a driver travelling 138kmh in a 50kmh zone on Cashel Road in Cahir in Tipperary, highlighting extreme speeding violations during the operation.

The first three months of 2026 were among the three safest first-three-month periods since records started being kept at the dawn of the Automobile Age, with only 42 fatalities from car crashes in New York City.

The collision occurred Monday night on I-95 northbound in Veazie, Maine, when an 18-year-old woman from Bangor lost control of her car due to snowy road conditions and crashed into the highway's median.

Since cellphones became ubiquitous, drivers have been texting behind the wheel, leading to awareness about distracted driving. But experts have clocked a new culprit: people watching videos, such as YouTube or TikTok, while driving.

Mayor Muriel Bowser pointed to the city's expanded speed and red light camera system as one reason traffic fatalities fell by 52 percent here last year.