A mid-week holiday isn’t stopping many residents from getting out there and taking a holiday vacation. According to officials with AAA, more than 42 million people are expected to travel more than 50 miles from their home to celebrate this year’s Fourth of July holiday. That’s a near 5 percent…
Teens nowadays may not be as excited to get behind the wheel as they once were. They’re now relying more on public transportation and other ways to get around. Driving just isn’t cool as it once was, many would say. Some teens are even a little frightened by it, saying…
New vehicles are coming with a heck of a lot of features nowadays and many of them are aimed at helping to make us a little safer by reducing the risks for car accidents in Boston and elsewhere. But are they working? Officials with the Highway Loss Data Institute are…
Summer means that it’s time for a vacation for a lot of Americans. Plenty of them will be making their way to the Boston area for their summer vacations. It’s one of the hottest spots in the country for getaways. Unfortunately for us, that means we have to live through…
With the summer weather, we’re getting to hang out outside, enjoy some barbecues, get a tan at the pool and enjoy that sunshine that we look forward to all year. Unfortunately, this is also a common time when children are left in vehicles and face serious risks for injury in…
A number of young motorists involved in a recent multi-vehicle, head-on car accident in Foxborough were injured. Four people total, including three teens, were seriously injured after their car collided with another one as it tried to make a left-hand turn at the intersection of Pierce and Main Street. According…
A father daughter duo is recovering after their vehicle flipped over as they were driving through the Thomas P. O’Neill tunnel. Luckily, there were two MBTA transit officers who were nearby who came to their rescue and saved them from their overturned car, according to the Boston Globe. Had the…
A recent safety demonstration truly illustrated the benefits of a new in-car technology that would allow our vehicles to warn drivers of potential collisions. A sedan was just seconds away from blowing through an intersection when all of a sudden a row of red lights flashed on the lower portion…
A new study reveals that sleepy drivers are just about at the same risks as drunk drivers. That’s right. According to a recent letter that was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, drivers who were either sleepy or drunk behind the wheel were about twice as likely to be…
Texing while driving is a big problem on our roadways. Teen drivers are some of the guiltiest. According to a recent report from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, more than 40 percent of high school students in the state admit to texting behind the wheel. The Boston Globe reports…