Traffic Safety
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Watchdog group calls for unified traffic laws in D.C., Md. and Va.
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An area watchdog group is calling for D.C., Virginia and Maryland to unify their traffic laws and make the metro area safer.
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Who is responsible in D.C.'s pedestrian crashes?
The District's data from 2004 to 2010 breaks down how and where walkers and drivers ran into one another.
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Washington D.C. is on track for record-low traffic fatalities in 2012
D.C. lays claim to just six traffic fatalities as of May 11, according to the police department, compared to 14 traffic fatalities at this time last year. That's a drop of 57.1%.
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How a car's speed affects the chances a struck pedestrian survives
How likely are you to survive if an automobile strikes you at 20 miles an hour? 30 miles an hour? 40?
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Google tests self-driving car
Google released a video of a blind man riding along in one of its new self-driving cars.
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Walk carefully at these intersections, DDOT warns
The city says that these 24 intersections are the most dangerous spots for people trying to walk in the District. Do you live near one?
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Washington, D.C. issues more than 350 parking tickets an hour
If you drive in the District, AAA Mid-Atlantic has some numbers that will crush your holiday spirits. The city's Department of Public Works gave out more than 1.6 million parking tickets last year and received likely more than $80 million as a result. Is that truly fair?
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