Carmakers and regulators have trialled a huge variety of ways to improve road safety over the decades, from the bizarre pedestrian scoop of the 1930s to the automatic emergency braking systems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One way Boston is trying to tame its infamously unruly traffic problem is by installing thousands of speed humps on small streets ...

BOSTON – Controversial speed humps have been removed from a Jamaica Plain neighborhood after complaints from people who live and drive in the area. Last month, WBZ-TV reported on the stretch of ...

According to a study from AAA, the average risk of severe injury for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle reaches 10 percent at an impact speed of 16 mph, 25 percent at 23 mph, 50 percent at 31 mph, 75 ...

BERKELEY - In 2017, Sylvia Ormando received a call that her house had been hit by a car. According to the police report, a driver of a Ford was trying to drive around a Jeep on Davenport Road. As the ...

One way Boston is trying to tame its infamously unruly traffic problem is by installing thousands of speed humps on small streets around the city to force drivers to slow down. Unlike some other ...

You can find lots of things on the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts: an abundance of bike lanes, shops hawking Harvard merch, and empty Sam Adams bottles. But you won’t find the raised, rounded ...

City leaders behind the plan to make Kansas City streets safer are now taking aim at a common complaint — speeding in residential areas — by modifying select streets citywide with speed humps to get ...

Burnham Park resident Saúl Lopez Jr. woke to the sound of a crash outside his home in October 2020. When he went to investigate, several neighbors were gathered in the street. His car and four others ...

The humble speed hump is a proven winner when it comes to, in the terminology of transportation geeks, "traffic calming." They compel leadfoots to slow down when driving through residential ...