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Since its founding in 1947, the AAA Foundation has sponsored over 200 projects related to highway safety, covering topics such as distracted, impaired, and drowsy driving; road rage; graduated driver licensing; driver's education and training; and pedestrian safety. The AAA Foundation research agenda is centered on four priority areas: Driver ...
According to a study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety that examined police records nationally, there were more than 1,250 incidents of road rage on average reported per year between 1990–1996 in the United States. Many of these incidents have ended with serious injuries or fatalities.
How to avoid road rage. A more than decade-old survey by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 9 in 10 respondents felt that aggressive drivers were a "somewhat" or "very serious ...
Sara-Nicole Morales (April 7, 1986 – November 20, 2021) [1] was shot and killed in the front yard [2] of her mother's house in Orange City, Florida, United States.While returning home from her job at a Volusia County library, she had become embroiled in a road rage incident with a local motorcyclist, during which she had intentionally struck his vehicle with hers, an act witnessed by two ...
Road rage incidents with a gun per 100K residents: 1.10 Accidents with fatalities due to aggressive and/or careless driving per 100K residents: 5.24 Percentage of accidents due to aggressive and ...
According to a study released in 2019 by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, red-light running fatalities had reached a 10-year high of 939 lives lost in 2017. With fewer road users, those ...
A 2018 survey of more than 3,300 drivers by AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety illustrates a disconnect in driver behavior. While a large percentage of drivers (95.6%) said texting or emailing while driving is unacceptable, nearly half (49%) report talking on a hand-held device and nearly 35% have sent a text or an email while driving.
Sep. 6—Alleged road rage incidents in recent weeks — incidents that left two men dead — have again placed the problem of aggressive driving front and center. Police have received reports of ...