Arizona has earned a national reputation, and it's not a good one. In the past week, there have been ten pedestrian traffic fatalities in the Phoenix area as reported by The Arizona Republic. The fatalities continued a deadly Arizona trend noted in a national safety report released on March 1,…
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The Governor's Highway Safety Association has issued their 2017 report on pedestrian deaths, and Arizona is at the top of the list. The governors’ association, which calls itself as “the states’ voice on highway safety,” found that five states — California, Texas, Florida, New York and Arizona — accounted for…
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It's been (another) difficult week on Tucson streets. Four people have died in road-related crashes this week; a pedestrian, a bicyclist and two people were killed in accidents on I-19. The pedestrian fatality occurred this morning when a woman was hit by a TUSD school bus near Ft. Lowell and…
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Tucson police will now be able to pull over drivers they see using their cellphones while driving, without needing any other reason, beginning February 1st. Officers will issues warnings to drivers for the first 30 days, to educate offenders about the new law, before they begin issuing tickets in March.…
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A record number of pedestrian deaths in 2017 is making the Tucson City Council consider strengthening its hands-free ordinance. Last March, the council passed the city's first hand's free ordinance. This ordinance makes using a cell phone or electronic device in a moving vehicle a secondary offense. Tucson police cannot…
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According to recent police statistics, Tucson's streets have become deadly for pedestrians in 2017. In 2016, 11 people lost their lives in pedestrian accidents. In 2017, twenty-two people have died this year, and there are still six weeks left in the year. Tucson is on a near-record pace and officials…
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