Law enforcement will spend one week this summer focused even more heavily on stopping unsafe car drivers and unsafe commercial truck drivers – with good reason.
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance announced it will conduct this year’s Operation Safe Driver Week July 10-16. The nonprofit organization, comprised of police and other roadway safety officials, has held this event for several years.
It will be a coordinated effort between police in the U.S, Canada and Mexico to identify dangerous drivers and then report their findings.
Negligent Driving
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On the heels of 2022 Patient Safety Awareness Week, established by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, another patient safety organization released its list of top patient safety concerns for 2022.
IHI, a nonprofit group that for 30 years has focused on making healthcare safer, marked March 13-19 as 2022 Patient Safety Awareness Week, noting that as many as 400,000 U.S. patients die every year from a preventable medical error.
Identifying potential errors is the first step in preventing them. ECRI, another organization whose mission is to make healthcare safer, recently ...
The latest federal report shows that fatal motor vehicle crashes continue to climb and points to two negligent driving behaviors as major contributors.
In early March the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration released “Overview of Motor Vehicle Crashes in 2020,” a comprehensive look at car and commercial truck accidents for the most recent year with finalized data.
A recent rise in fatal motor vehicle accidents continued in 2020, according to the NHTSA report. Nearly 39,000 people died in car crashes and truck crashes that year – a nearly 7% jump in ...
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