Hitting a patch of ice and skidding off the road can cause any of us to have a slight panic attack. But, this, this is Amazing.

Many defendants in road accident cases did not know they were legally required to stop, university researchers say. Leicester University's Criminology Department found more than 17,000 cases in 2015 involved a hit and run driver. This was 12% of all road accidents in Great Britain involving injury, and the second annual increase in a row. Safety charity Brake said there was an incentive for drivers to flee after killing under the influence of drink or drugs - and face lesser charges.

The Alberta Motor Association says the “zipper merge" is the best way to ease bottlenecks when drivers are faced with lane closures ahead.

Although the traditional response to DWI has always been enforcing criminal sanctions, the success of this method has not been consistent. A new study looked at reducing the frequency of DWI through risk perceptions, in other words, whether the threat of being detained for DWI would discourage people from engaging in this behavior. Survey data collected from police, individual drivers and defense attorneys specializing in DWI in eight U.S. cities was examined.

Mercedes has just announced a conceptual new set of lamps that can not only adapt their light distribution to cater to the environment, but can project high-res visual aids onto the road ahead, such as makeshift zebra crossings for nearby pedestrians.

Autopilot is the latest catchphrase in the world of ultra-luxury automobiles, and with more manufacturers making the high-tech feature available on current models, it's crucial that consumers understand how to use autopilot safely to avoid danger to themselves and other motorists. The future of automotive transportation may indeed see us fully relying on automobiles to do the driving without human input, but we're not there yet.

Less obvious than it sounds.

On the streets of early 20th Century America, nothing moved faster than 10 miles per hour. Responsible parents would tell their children, “Go outside, and play in the streets. All day.” And then the automobile happened. And then automobiles began killing thousands of children, every year. Much of the public viewed the car as a

A new law which allows drivers to go through some red lights went into effect across Pennsylvania on Sunday.Act 101, more commonly known as the "Ride on Red" law, gives anyone on the road the option to go through red lights as long as they use common sense and caution. Essentially, if a stop light is unresponsive, and no one is coming the other way, the new law, sponsored by Rep. Stephen Bloom (R-Cumberland), someone can legally drive through the intersection.

Get caught twice using your mobile phone while driving and you will lose your licence under far tougher new sanctions that will be announced by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling on Saturday. Anyone calling, texting or using an app while driving will face an on the spot fine of at least £200 and will receive six points on their licence, halfway to an automatic driving ban of at least six months. Already new drivers have their licences revoked if they accrue six points within two years of passing their test.

You're not imagining it.

Uber has tried to position itself as everyone’s favorite designated driver—like a superhero that fights drunk driving. But a new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology says that ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft have had no impact on the country’s overall rate of drunk driving fatalities, which claim around 10,000 lives a year, since they started in 2009. The researchers say it's partly because drunk people aren’t willing to pay for the cost of a ride.

Motorcyclists get a bad rap from the car-driving public a lot of the time. Especially here in Canada where we …

Traffic fatalities in America hit a seven-year high in 2015, with pedestrians and cyclists accounting for a disproportionate share of the alarming increase, according to preliminary data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Last year, 35,200 people were killed in traffic — a 7.7 percent increase over 2014 and the worst death toll since 2008. The number of people killed while …

For women in the trucking industry, going to work can mean subjecting themselves to catcalling, harassment, rape, and a system built to deny them justice. By Mary Pilon.

So yeah, the image says everything.

Don't be stupid -- look both ways and pay attention when crossing the street! Side walks will not stop the bad drivers from hurting you.

Waze unveiled its "difficult intersections" feature, which will let drivers avoid annoying, and potentially dangerous, intersections.

Texting isn’t like other kinds of driving distractions. It’s way more dangerous because it so encompasses our attention that it strips away an emergency "sixth sense" that alerts us when something is about to go wrong. A new study from researchers at the University of Houston pits texting against two other kinds of distraction—emotional stress and plain-old daydreaming. It sent 59 people driving down the same stretch of (simulated) road four times, once on regular high alert, once each while being bombarded...

Measuring ‘drunk’ is pretty easy; the more alcohol someone drinks, the more alcohol shows up in that person’s blood and the more impaired that person becomes, falling somewhere on a scale of tipsy to wasted. Measuring ‘high,’ on the other hand, is far hazier—much to the dismay of some states' law enforcement.