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Pedestrians, cyclists, two-wheeler riders constitute 66% of road fatalities in Southeast Asia, says a WHO report
Occupants of four-wheeled vehicles make up 25% of the deaths and pedestrians account for 21 %. Cycl…
PTI
Video footage shows elite Kentucky cops throwing slushies at pedestrians while on duty
The officers were part of an elite squad that was tasked with preventing drug and gun crime in Loui…
Rebecca Rommen
Cruise begins layoffs after suspending its self-driving robotaxis following a collision that dragged pedestrian beneath car
Cruise's CEO also reportedly told staff this week to expect layoffs involving full-time staff.
Kylie Kirschner
The pedestrian detection systems in self-driving cars are less likely to detect children and people of color, study suggests
Researchers say the results stem from biases present in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars …
Katie Hawkinson
The first self-driving car fatality case put to rest who was responsible for killing a pedestrian. In this case, it was not the robot.
Rafaela Vasquez, who was behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber that killed a pedestrian in 2018, …
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
Opening iconic New York City streets to pedestrians meant an extra $3 million in spending last year — and helped save local businesses during the pandemic
Opening the streets of New York City is the latest economic proof that making streets pedestrian fr…
Juliana Kaplan,Eliza Relman
Sen. Bob Menendez's wife, Nadine Arslanian, racked up traffic violations – including using her phone while driving — before she struck and killed a pedestrian in 2018
The wife of embattled senator Bob Menendez's history of traffic violations started years before a f…
Katherine Long
Congress sat back and let trucks become heavier, taller, and deadlier. Now pedestrian fatalities are at a 40-year high.
"It's a race to the biggest machine driven by the biggest assholes, and it's society that will pay …
Madison Hall
Biden could help save cars, bicyclists, and pedestrians from being pulled under trucks in an accident with a simple fix, advocates say
Road safety advocates argue the Department of Transportation and the trucking industry are standing…
Eliza Relman
Louisville cops called Black people racial slurs and videotaped themselves throwing drinks at pedestrians from their police cars, explosive DOJ probe finds
The Department of Justice found that the abusive conduct included insulting people with disabilitie…
Jack Newsham,Chris Panella
Pedestrians take to the streets of Paris to celebrate the city's seventh annual 'day without cars'
Mayor Anne Hidalgo opened the streets of Paris to residents and visitors and is working on a plan t…
Morgan Keith
Inside Boston's Smart Utilities Program, which plans to update the city's infrastructure and be more sustainable
The program is turning Boston into a "smart city" through improvements like a district energy micro…
Erica Sweeney
NYPD officers struck and killed a pedestrian with their squad car while responding to a call. The city has paid out over half a billion in crash settlements, largely involving the police department, in the last decade.
New York City paid out $653.8 million in claims related to crashes involving city vehicles in the l…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
At least 3 people injured in a pedestrian bridge collapse in Washington, DC
All lanes of Interstate 295 in part of Washington, DC, were blocked on Wednesday after a pedestrian…
Kelly McLaughlin
Social distancing has uncluttered New York's iconic Brooklyn Bridge — and some architects have plans to keep it that way
The pandemic eased the Brooklyn Bridge's dangerous congestion from thousands of cyclists and pedest…
Debanjali Bose
More than 200 dead birds fell from the sky, hitting pedestrians and vehicles in Spain, reports say
A resident of Ferrol, Spain, thought he heard thunder. When he checked, he saw dead starlings linin…
Bethany Dawson
South Dakota Attorney General who killed pedestrian won't serve jail time
Jason Ravnsborg will have to pay almost $5,000 in fines after he struck and killed a pedestrian on …
Bryan Metzger
Sarah Jackson
NYC broke a record and went 58 days without any pedestrian deaths
Traffic levels across the city — and the county — have plunged in recent months due to stay-at-home…
Michelle Mark
Seattle closed more than 20 miles of streets to cars so people could exercise during lockdown. They mayor said they'll stay that way.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said streets closed to allow people to exercise during the coronavirus l…