State DOTs play a central role in the safety and sustainability of transportation systems because states set policies. Here are two that do it poorly and two that do it well.
NBC 5 Investigates reported Dallas has the highest road fatality rate among cities its size and that speed was the highest cause but some experts think.
The first traffic death on Aug. 26 happened just before 7 a.m.
A man was making a left-hand turn out of an apartment complex in West Austin; he was killed after his car collided with a Jeep Cherokee. Later that day a bicyclist ran a red light and collided with a driver heading south on Highway 183. Two minutes later another bicyclist was killed, this time after a driver rear-ended him.
A total of 94 people died on Austin roads last year, marking the highest number of traffic deaths in the city in five years. This might seem less remarkable if 2020 weren’t a year many people stayed home; with the COVID-19 pandemic raging since late March, drivers largely stayed off Austin’s roads. Traffic safety experts readied themselves for a dip in traffic deaths.