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Archive for September 21st, 2009

The Accidental Journalist (an occasional series chronicling how predictable, preventable crashes are turned into accidents)

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Police say Hunt told them shortly after the May 2 accident that she was applying red polish to her nails as she drove at about 50 mph toward an intersection and did not see motorcyclist Anita Zaffke until after she hit her.

Zaffke, 56, who lived in Lake Zurich, was stopped at a traffic signal when she was struck.

The driver, by the way, was charged with reckless homicide.

(thanks Alex)

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Posted on Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 8:33 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Vehicle Factors

The IIHS pairs a big hullking 1959 Chevy Bel Air versus a 2009 Chevy Malibu. The results show how far car safety has come in 50 years. Now for the hard part: the drivers.

(thanks Darren)

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Posted on Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 8:28 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Los Angeles

The main leg of the paperback tour ended last week (as very nearly did my mental and physical health) with an event at the great Zocalo series in Los Angeles. Eric Morris of Freakonomics provided the questions, while the sold-out audience was star-studded, with Donald Shoup, John Fisher of LA DOT, Nate Berg of Planetizen, not to mention a bunch of folks from UCLA and CALTRANS. Thanks to all who came out.

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Posted on Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 8:12 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Traffic Tom Vanderbilt

How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

Please send tips, news, research papers, links, photos (bad road signs, outrageous bumper stickers, spectacularly awful acts of driving or parking or anything traffic-related), or ideas for my Slate.com Transport column to me at: info@howwedrive.com.

For publicity inquiries, please contact Kate Runde at Vintage: krunde@randomhouse.com.

For editorial inquiries, please contact Zoe Pagnamenta at The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency: zoe@zpagency.com.

For speaking engagement inquiries, please contact
Jenna Meulemans at the Knopf Speaker Bureau.

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