April 9, 2008.
California Office of Traffic Safety Summit
San Francisco, CA.
May 19, 2009
University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies
Bloomington, MN
June 23, 2009
Driving Assessment 2009
Big Sky, Montana
June 26, 2009
PRI World Congress
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
June 27, 2009
Day of Architecture
Utrecht, The Netherlands
July 13, 2009
Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP)
Phoenix, AZ.
August 12-14
Texas Department of Transportation “Save a Life Summit”
San Antonio, Texas
September 2, 2009
Governors Highway Safety Association Annual Meeting
Savannah, Georgia
September 11, 2009
Oregon Transportation Summit
Portland, Oregon
October 8
Honda R&D Americas
Raymond, Ohio
October 10-11
INFORMS Roundtable
San Diego, CA
October 21, 2009
California State University-San Bernardino, Leonard Transportation Center
San Bernardino, CA
November 5
Southern New England Planning Association Planning Conference
Uncasville, Connecticut
January 6
Texas Transportation Forum
Austin, TX
January 19
Yale University
(with Donald Shoup; details to come)
Monday, February 22
Yale University School of Architecture
Eero Saarinen Lecture
Friday, March 19
University of Delaware
Delaware Center for Transportation
April 5-7
University of Utah
Salt Lake City
McMurrin Lectureship
April 19
International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (Organization Management Workshop)
Austin, Texas
Monday, April 26
Edmonton Traffic Safety Conference
Edmonton, Canada
Monday, June 7
Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Wednesday, July 6
Fondo de Prevención Vial
Bogotá, Colombia
Tuesday, August 31
Royal Automobile Club
Perth, Australia
Wednesday, September 1
Australasian Road Safety Conference
Canberra, Australia
Wednesday, September 22
Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s
Traffic Incident Management Enhancement Program
Statewide Conference
Wisconsin Dells, WI
Wednesday, October 20
Rutgers University
Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation
Piscataway, NJ
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre
Injury Prevention Forum
Toronto
Monday, May 2
Idaho Public Driver Education Conference
Boise, Idaho
Tuesday, June 2, 2011
California Association of Cities
Costa Mesa, California
Sunday, August 21, 2011
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Attitudes: Iniciativa Social de Audi
Madrid, Spain
April 16, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Gardens Theatre, QUT
Brisbane, Australia
April 17, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Centennial Plaza, Sydney
Sydney, Australia
April 19, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Melbourne Town Hall
Melbourne, Australia
January 30, 2013
University of Minnesota City Engineers Association Meeting
Minneapolis, MN
January 31, 2013
Metropolis and Mobile Life
School of Architecture, University of Toronto
February 22, 2013
ISL Engineering
Edmonton, Canada
March 1, 2013
Australian Road Summit
Melbourne, Australia
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July 21st, 2010 at 8:48 pm
The way that the NYPD treats ped, bike and, in this case, scooter fatalities in car crashes is an absolute scandal. I’m glad this egregious case got some press because it’s par for the course. God forbid a friend of loved one is ever run down by a car on the streets of New York City. When you see the NYPD crash report (if they release it to you — they don’t always do that) chances are you’ll find that the victim’s life was completely written-off by whatever office happened to “investigate” and write up the crash report. Seriously. I’ve read a number of these “accident reports” and it’s that bad. The blame is almost always implicitly placed on the victim.
July 21st, 2010 at 8:56 pm
But that’s how motorcycle and bicycle crashes are normally reported. The two wheeler always “collides with”, is always implied to be at fault The riders “lose control” whereas when the same thing happens to a car it’s always the “car left the road” or similar blaming of inanimate object, not the driver.
This is because the private car is sacred and nothing may be done or said to imply that the driver was culpable. After all, the newspaper readers are all drivers.
If you are absolutely forced to say it was a driver at fault then demonise them some way that your readership thinks “not like me then”.
I’m surprised you haven’t noticed this, motorcyclists have known about it for years.
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:45 am
In fairness, it is possible that she collided with the SUV even if it ran the red light. Let’s say she was going through the green and the SUV moved in front of her. She would have collided with the SUV, even though the SUV was at fault. At that point, it would be inaccurate to say that she was struck by the SUV.
That said, it seems the witnesses interviewed in the blog post recall the SUV hitting her.
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:48 am
Here is how most of the public thinks:
If you are using a public road without a caged vehicle (pedestrian, bicyclist or motorcyclist) and you hit or are hit by a caged vehicle it is your fault because you are not in a caged vehicle and were asking for it.
July 26th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
@George. You forgot, if someone in a small car gets hit and injured, it’s their fault for buying a wimpy car instead of a huge SUV.
August 2nd, 2010 at 8:20 am
Aileen McKay-Dalton was my sister. The facts of the accident are still not clear and my sister may have partially at fault but it is more than likely that a guy accelerated on amber, went through red and hit my sister. As a British citizen I concur that the initial reporting and investigation seems very slapdash. Be assured that the local community and the family will pursue truth and justice here. Arranging my sister’s memorial I was driven around Brooklyn for the first time and saw things from the perspective of a car driver for the first time (I used to ride a bicycle on Manhattan and I am unable to hold a drivers licence). Though a driver’s mistake is the likely cause (we hear that he is traumatised by what happened) what struck me was very poor intersection design and an appalling road surface which gives little room for the slick manoeuvres available in Europe’s roads.
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:55 am
I do feel for the tragic death of this mother, but any rider of a scooter or a motorcycle has to accept certain risks. Most feel that the pleasure and convenience outweigh the dangers. Regardless of who is at fault accidents can happen and when they do the results are often deadly. This is a sobering reminder of the risks they take.
September 7th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
It seems that in Toronto, at least, the idea of “accidents” in car crash terms is being challenged:
http://www.thestar.com/article/856651–english-is-a-car-crash-an-accident
September 12th, 2010 at 9:27 am
It is worth noting that the US media (in particular, but by no means exclusively) is very reluctant to apportion blame to a driver in many other cases. Railroad accidents seem particularly ripe for this kind of emotive reporting. Compare and contrast these two headlines:
“Van struck by Amtrack locomotive in south city”
and
“Suffolk train and lorry level crossing smash injures 21″
In both cases it would appear that the driver of the truck/van had misused the crossing. One came from a local US TV website, the other from English local news.
While the UK article does not apportion blame, the paragraphs below allow the reader to readily draw the conclusion that it was unlikely that the truck driver was using the crossing appropriately. It was a crossing on private land where the truck driver was required by law to phone the train dispatcher using the railroad telephone located at the crossing to ask for permission to cross. The signalling logs show that nobody called, and apparently, “[a] 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of railway safety offences.”
The US news site, however, show a similar situation, albeit with fewer injuries. But the emotive language used means that while they use factually accurate statements, you as a reader are left in no doubt that the van driver was the one at risk here, “[t]he van sustained heavy damage in the crash, the train appeared to have little, if any damage.”
(Hardly surprising given the weights and construction standards of the vehicles involved)
This is despite the fact that the previous paragraph makes it quite clear that the van driver was attempting to outrun the train, “a cargo van tried to cross the tracks ahead of a slow moving Amtrak train.”
I have found this common amongst US reporting of railroad incidents. The headline hardly ever indicates that some nutcase has driven into the path of a train, often despite warnings and barriers, and imply that the train didn’t stop, it just plowed straight into the car/van/truck, even though almost everyone knows it can take a couple of miles to stop a fully laden train, so it has no way of stopping in time. You never see the headline “Man drives car in front of moving train”, but you often see the headline “Train kills man driving car”, as if it was wilful on the part of the railroad or engineer, and not wilful on the part of the driver.
This is one of the reasons the US will retain the perception that roads are safer than railroads, because the media keeps up the pressure of blame where it does not lie.
In reply to “ad” of August 3rd, you are right that it is a risk that we choose to take. Although it is worth noting that not everyone has the right or capability of choosing to drive, either for financial, medical or legal reasons, but their “rights” in taking up the alternatives can be trodden upon by not insisting that street design and highway legislation accommodate the needs of these people. The fact that the media and police departments continue to perpetuate these “little lies” about blame and risk will mean that the rights of this group of citizens will continue to remain undermined in the US.