In The News: Transportation Research Center
According to respondersafety.com, 51 first responders were struck by vehicles and killed nationwide last year.
Safety on the roads and proper sidewalk usage are especially important during the holiday season.
Road Safety Advocate Erin Breen acknowledged the severity of road fatalities across Las Vegas during a recent traffic safety event.
Southern Nevada’s practice of reducing speeding tickets to parking violations played a significant role in a North Las Vegas crash that killed nine people in January 2022, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded Tuesday.
In 2022, seat belt usage nationwide was at 91.9%, which is also close to Nevada’s averages, according to a UNLV study published this year.
Gone are the days of walking to class, as students on the UNLV campus have adopted a nationwide trend of riding electric scooters to get around.
Earlier this month, a 5-year-old boy was hit and killed while heading to school outside a designated drop off zone at Somerset Academy Losee Campus in North Las Vegas. This week, its sister school, Somerset Academy Lone Mountain is changing its traffic procedures to ensure kids get to and from school safely.
26 students have been hit by cars in Las Vegas near CCSD school campuses, marking a significant increase from the previous year since the start of the school year.
Erin Breen, coordinator of the UNLV Transportation Research Center’s Traffic Safety Coalition, said Kamari’s death was due to an impatient driver violating traffic rules. She said drivers with taller cars, like the van involved in Friday’s crash, should be extra mindful to look down for shorter children.
Over 180 people have lost their lives on Clark County roads this year and out of those deaths, 55 were pedestrians, according to the Department of Public Safety.
Las Vegas Valley city courts are still reducing large numbers of speeding tickets to parking violations, a controversial practice that experts say allows dangerous drivers to put the public at risk.
Clark County lost 11 people due to a traffic incident in September, which is a record for pedestrian fatalities in a single month.