traffic safety
Excess of Vehicle Recalls Leads DOT to Create New 5-Star Rating System
It’s been a troubling year for many of the big motor vehicle manufacturing companies. The bigger picture has more troubling for the millions of consumers who owned those companies’ vehicles… which ended up being recalled due to dangerous defects. Beginning way back in 1966, the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act gave the Department of Transportation’s...
Read MoreBuckle Up for Holiday Traffic, Paterson, NJ!
True, the 2009 statistics show the lowest number of traffic fatalities on U.S. roadways since 1950, but that’s no reason to be a turkey this weekend! Thanksgiving weekend brings the highest amount of vehicle traffic to our city streets and highways, so New Jersey State Police will be on the lookout in Paterson, NJ, and all over Passaic County for holiday travelers who are not buckled up...
Read MoreBig Trucks A Necessary NJ Evil?
Drivers have been getting into accidents since 1771 when French engineer and inventor Nicolas Joseph Cugnot drove one of his steam-powered vehicles into a wall. Fortunately, back then, our world wasn’t also teeming with speeding tractor-trailers, buses and the like. History was made with one car, one wall and, we assume, little fallout (except for some bricks). Now, almost 240 years...
Read MoreHelp Your Teen Driver to Hit the Road
Parents are generally caught off-guard when it comes time for The Talk. Your kid is growing up now. Adulthood is just around the corner. What you teach your child now will direct him or her along the highways of life. It may be scary, but don’t sweat it. It’s National Teen Driver Safety Week and all your anxieties can be allayed by a little internet research. You won’t have to...
Read MoreWhen Car Wrecks Lead to Workers’ Compensation
New Jersey employers spend countless hours creating and distributing employee safety handbooks. They train their staffs on how to avoid injury on the job. They consult with safety inspectors to make sure they’ve met all the government requirements for a safe workplace. Then they send their employees out onto the road with a cell phone and demand they be available to answer it 24/7. Well,...
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