#road-safety — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #road-safety, aggregated by home.social.
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#ThamesValleyPolice and #Hampshire #Constabulary in Southern #England test a new #breathalyser (developed following research in the #Netherlands ) which checks #drivers for use of #nitrousoxide (laughing #gas) - a form of #DUI that has led to serious #collisions across #Europe
(it almost seems like drivers are taking this stuff out of spite, as use of other substances is now tested for and detectable so folk have stopped doing them as much when regularly driving)
This is apparently the first device of this kind in the World!
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Doctor who was mowed down by driver is going to tell the Dail to provide safe cycling infrastructure. Will this work? #RoadSafety #Cycling #SedentaryIreland
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7-May-2026
New study: Women are 60 percent more likely to be injured in car accidents than menA study by TU Graz, financed by the Austrian Road Safety Fund (VSF), shows that #women have a 60 per cent higher #injury
risk in car #accidents compared to men. This is especially true for female passengers and older womenintriguing. @SheDrivesMobility [email protected]
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An #arrest for attempt #murder rather than simply causing #injury by dangerous #driving is relatively unusual - and in line with #Norfolk and Suffolk Constabulary's own policies suggests this #collision in #Norwich between a car and cyclist was *deliberate* (at very least there appears to also be #DUI and both #alcohol and #drugs playing a factor)
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Why politicians can’t fix potholes permanently
#UK #Potholes #RoadSafety #Infrastructure #Politics #ClimateChange #Transportation #RoadMaintenance #Engineering #LocalGovernment #Economy #UrbanPlanning #SmartCities #Roads #Traffic #Construction #Elections
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SAFETY FIRST: Supriya Sule escaped a highway crash today. Her message? "Wear your seatbelts!" https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/supriya-sule-car-accident-mumbai-pune-expressway-seatbelt-safety-h3udesvt?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SupriyaSule #RoadSafety #MumbaiPuneExpressway #NCP #MaharashtraNews
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116512024550560802
this is actually a good practice for #RoadSafety (and implies the fesser has either already taken an #AdvancedDriving test or has been researching what is involved in doing so)
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A genuinely sad case - #driver clearly wasnt a "good lad", involved with #drugs and under influence when #driving - but I don't think he set out to #crash and kill the lass and badly injure his friend
A wider issue is social circle for young people outside big cities is affected by #CarDependency and #ToxicMasculinity (I suspect his friend and girlfriend admired him for owning the #BMW )
If he'd stopped he'd likely have walked free from Court and got only 3 years ban as no one would have got hurt, but as fun as #partydrugs can be, they can lead to irrational and impulsive behaviour (he's also likely to be on the comedown and sleep deprived which wouldn't have helped matters)
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"Driver doing 173kmh in 100kmh zone and 15 arrested for driving under the influence on first day of Garda Bank Holiday crackdown"
Yet again when Gardaí go out to prevent the crimes we know are happening, they find that the crimes are indeed happening.
#ireland #mastodaoine #roadSafety -
A young man from SE #England who was watching #Tiktok whilst #driving in #Essex leading to a rush hour #collision and a #fataility has been sent to #prison after a guilty plea at #CrownCourt
If he is from #HighWycombe he would already have spent 2 hours on the road, starting in early morning so even more at risk from the effects of #SleepDeprivation and #Distraction
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YipgsfuRz4
More cycling deaths in the Netherlands. GCN discusses #cycling #roadAccident #helmet #roadsafety -
The headline got changed from the URL - I was slightly disappointed not to read of reports or see footage of of #Sweeney style chases across #London on #MetPol #e-bikes against #MobilePhone #robbers on similar two wheelers
In reality all they are doing is using more #surveillance with #drones to catch some of the #thieves and shaking down others on types of #ebike that aren't legal for #UK roads (which the old bill was previously turning a blind eye to)
#crime #PersonalSafety #transport #RoadSafety #UrbanRoadSafety
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There is no such thing as road rage, only shitty individuals that have no business driving on public roads and endangering others.
Walk, bike, use Public Transportation, hail a ride, or share a ride. Nobody wants you on the road. Nobody.
#PublicTransportation #RoadSafety #Walk #Bike #RideHailing #RideSharing #Tuesday
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Once again parts of #OrwellBridge in #Ipswich #Suffolk closed due to rush hour #collision (#car vs #lorry) with one #fatality and one #arrest
if its not possible to quickly reduce #CarDependency (and realistically it is not), nor build the #NorthernBypass - then there's a real need to further encourage #FlexibleWorking and more people to move away from 9-5 working hours - all these crashes seem to happen around rush hour, whereas same #A14 highway is a lot quieter in afternoons and evenings (there's still lorries, but they are more spread out and not so many bottlenecks at the junctions)
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2026-04-27/man-dies-after-crash-which-closed-major-bridge
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Multiple bottles of #prosecco yeeted into live lanes of #M4 #motorway and a container knocked from a #lorry following a #collision - one lorry #driver #arrested on suspicion of using a #mobilePhone at the wheel. There were only minor injuries, but the clean up will take a good few hours!
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Did you know the planned overscaled coffee shop/visitor centre at the Hellfire has a projected capital investment cost of €40 million?
Over 32K have said no to this development!
https://change.org/p/save-the-hellfire-massy-s-wood
#review #nature #wildlife #roadsafety -
Good work by #lorry driver - keeping occupants of small car that has broken down on "smart" #motorway safe and calling nines so #Police and #NationalHighways are aware - it took 5 mins on 999 call, and 13 further minutes for National Highways to arrive on scene, and #drivers are barely noticing stationary lorry (further ahead the matrix sign is showing "national speed limit", which suggests there has already been a restriction on previous signs so drivers are likely trying to accelerate to get back to 70mph (112 km/h)
These smart #motorways are not safe (thankfully there are no further ones being built)
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My #bookreview of Devi Sridhar's very enlightening book #HowNotToDie is out in this month's issue of C&I. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/staying-alive.html
#science #newBooks #nonFiction #publicHealth #roadSafety #gunCulture #pandemic #disease #smoking #drugs -
Waymo, a Google-owned company, which officially launched its self-driving taxi fleet in London earlier this month, has told cycling campaigners that it is “normal practice” for their taxis to veer into and block cycle lanes
#cycling #roadSafety
https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo -
Can lower speed limits save lives on Europe’s roads?
From Paris to Stuttgart, cities are hitting the brakes on speed in an effort to save lives.
Could this be the key to reaching zero road deaths in the EU by 2050?
#RoadSafety #Accidents #Europe #Roads #Cars #Traffic #Cities #EU #SpeedLimits
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6 modules, tests, certificate: Telangana new licence system decoded https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/telangana-driving-licence-rules-2026-q2xt5hhz?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Telangana #DrivingLicence #TrafficRules #RoadSafety #IndiaNews
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Rise of the ‘ghost owners’: 18,000 UK vehicles in use without proper records https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/23/ghost-owners-uk-vehicles-in-use-without-proper-records-dvla #Dvla #Motoring #AutomotiveIndustry #RoadSafety #UkNews #Labour #Politics
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The 50% discount on Kerala traffic fines sounds great, but "red tape" is making it hard to claim. From court-transferred files to a lack of unified systems, many are struggling to settle dues before the April 30 deadline. Register now at the official MVD link! #KeralaMVD #TrafficFines #KeralaPolice #RoadSafety #AmnestyScheme https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/traffic-violations-why-its-not-easy-to-claim-kerala-governments-50-fine-discounts-xg4wtmx9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #KeralaMVD #TrafficFines #KeralaPolice #RoadSafety #TrafficViolations
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Just had to break hard to avoid 2 masked guys on a blue scrambler bike who were driving erratically on the wrong side of the road in Castleknock Village.
So much for the effectiveness of the newly enacted Grace’s Law.
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Europe’s cyclists left behind as safety gap widens, new ETSC report finds
https://etsc.eu/europes-cyclists-left-behind-as-safety-gap-widens-new-etsc-report-finds/
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A #BMW #driver in #Yorkshire got several months #prison (as well as a long stay in hospital and quite a few broken bones) after trying to evade #Police and crashing into a #roundabout (he was also found to be #driving under influence of #alcohol and #drugs)
Nolte that Press report says "no previous *driving* offences" in his record (which strongly suggests he might have had other previous)
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/26036826.drink-driver-hit-142-mph-police-chase-york/
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Kerala-Bengaluru bus hits car in Mandya. 4 injured shifted to MIMS hospital. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/mysore-bengaluru-highway-accident-mandya-private-bus-kerala-car-collision-mims-fosx616w?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Mandya #MysuruBengaluruExpressway #RoadSafety #Bengaluru