Tag Archive: safety

According to the latest stats from the US Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2013, over 2.3 million people were injured in traffic accidents. 32,719 people were killed. 3,964 of those fatalities involved large trucks.   Those are just numbers unless your family was involved. Or if driving on our increasingly dangerous roads is your...

It’s easy to get stuck in the rut of talking about the poor state of our roads, both in terms of physical structure and ever-worsening congestion. After all, that’s the issue that first grabbed us here at Be Prepared to Stop. But hand-in-hand with that came our concern about safety. We can talk from now until next Christmas...