Women Drivers

INTRODUCTION There is a remarkable amount of nonsense talked about women drivers. The simple fact is that while women may have proportionately more crashes than men, those crashes are, on the whole, much less severe, and women are therefore responsible for far fewer injuries and deaths than male drivers. As a reflection of this fact,…

Police Driving

Canada Recruits (cadets) undergo six months of basic training each year at “Depot,” Regina’s historic Royal Canadian Mounted Police academy. While at Depot, recruits spend 52 hours at the driving unit, acquiring many of the same advanced driving skills that civilian schools teach to would-be race drivers… High-speed driving isn’t as every day as many…

The Psychology Of Driving

“It is well known that human behavior is the main cause of road accidents. Therefore it is important to try to improve driving behavior. Research and studies show that the best way to achieve this is a combination of enforcement actions and, simultaneously, information to the public.” View the ‘Human Behaviour’ page of the European…

Pedestrian Issues

On September 13th, 1899, Henry Bliss was struck and killed by an electric car in NYC and thus became the first person in North America to be killed by an automobile. Each year in the United States, approximately 6,000 pedestrians are killed by cars, and 110,000 are injured. Read the report. One of our pages,…

Driver Distractions

Articles and Summaries     Oct 2021:  Distracted Driving – Overview & Guidelines      Distracted driving, perhaps surprisingly, leaves experts in various fields debating precisely what it is.      In this article, DSA editor Eddie Wren focuses on many points raised at last week’s First International Conference on Distracted Driving (Toronto). She lays out some…

Safety By Design

How to Choose a Safe Car Choosing a car is more than whether it looks good, goes fast, or is economical. But, unfortunately, none of those features are helpful if the proud new owners become road crash casualties. One should consider three distinctly different types of safety features when choosing a new vehicle. First, personal…

Drowsy Driving

Known to the layman as the result of ‘drowsy driving,’ sleep-related vehicle accidents (SRVAs) is a common type of road crash. They typically involve one vehicle colliding with the rear of another or drifting off the road and hitting other objects. The most dangerous times of day have a symmetry that makes them easy to…

So What Exactly Is Advanced Driving?

‘Advanced Driving’ is a phrase that is often used, out of context, in driving schools and racetrack driving courses by people who suggest that knowing a few enhanced evasion techniques is enough to qualify for this description. Accurate advanced driving, however, is solely concerned with public road driving, not private tracks. Furthermore, it is entirely…