Road safety, trucking and the law, explained.
Why crashes happen on ordinary roads, and what the research says about preventing them.
Virginia's crash database records thousands of deer collisions a year, and the state's own researchers say it misses most of them. A guide to the numbers, the season and the aftermath.
Editorial Desk8 min read
A lapse that would dent a fender in a car-on-car crash can kill a rider. Here is why the risk falls so unevenly, and why the official numbers cannot fully measure it.
Editorial Desk6 min read
People walking and cycling have no crash structure, so the margin for error has to come from the road. How speed, width and light shape their odds, and what engineers can change.
Editorial Desk6 min read
The figure everyone quotes is 94 percent. It comes from a federal survey of crashes from 2005 to 2007, and it measures something narrower than most people who repeat it assume.
Editorial Desk9 min read
