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Fast Speeds, Fatal Risks: Honoring Speed Safety Awareness Month
Speeding isn’t just a personal risk—it’s a danger to everyone on the road. As we celebrate Streets Are For Everyone‘s Speed Safety Awareness Month, it’s crucial to understand why reducing speed saves lives and how traffic-calming solutions like Radarsign’s radar speed signs help protect our communities. Speeding accounts for nearly one in three traffic fatalities…
Maximizing Budgets with Radar Speed Signs: Understanding the ROI and Long-Term Savings
Local communities constantly seek ways to effectively manage budgets while ensuring public safety. Radarsign’s radar speed signs offer a smart investment that provides substantial financial benefits over time. Here’s how these innovative tools can save communities money and enhance overall traffic management. Reduced Enforcement Costs Radar speed signs automate speed monitoring, significantly reducing the need…
Play It Safe This Super Bowl LIX: Game-Day Driving Tips
Super Bowl Sunday isn’t just about football—it’s one of the busiest and most dangerous days on the road each year. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), traffic crashes spike by up to 40% on game day, with 56% of fatal crashes involving impaired drivers. Whether you’re heading to a watch party or…
Slowing Down to Save Lives: The Urgency of Traffic Calming
Speeding is one of the leading causes of severe crashes, endangering drivers, passengers, and pedestrians alike. But what if communities could take control of road safety with simple yet effective solutions? By focusing on speed management and behavioral change, tools like radar speed signs are transforming how we approach traffic safety—especially in high-risk, high-traffic areas.…
National Passenger Safety Week: Why It Matters
National Passenger Safety Week, observed the week of January 20 – January 27, annually, was founded by the National Passenger Safety Campaign in partnership with the We Save Lives organization. It aims to highlight the vital importance of protecting passengers and ensuring safer roads for everyone. This initiative encourages individuals, communities, and policymakers to take…
Master Winter Driving: Proven Safety Tips from Radarsign
Winter weather brings unique challenges for drivers, from icy roads to poor visibility. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in 2022, there were over 32,000 injury crashes during snow or sleet conditions. On average, icy and snowy roads account for 1,836 deaths and 136,309 injuries each year. These statistics highlight the importance…
Drive Safe: A Holiday Safety Message from Radarsign
The holiday season brings joy, celebrations, and an increase in road travel. Millions of drivers hit the roads to visit loved ones or attend festive events. However, with the rise in traffic, the risks of accidents also increases. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimated 345 lives were lost on U.S. roads last Christmas holiday…
Traffic Fatalities Up Nationwide in 2020
Thanks to stay-at-home orders and a rise in telecommuting, U.S. roadways were less traveled in 2020. But even with fewer drivers on the road last year, data is showing that more Americans died from traffic accidents.
The NHTSA’s 2Q 2020 Traffic Safety Report Illuminates Traffic Calming Needs for 2021
Radarsign driver feedback signs can help slow speeding drivers and accomplish NHTSA key safety goals in 2021.
The Evolution of Speed Enforcement in 2020
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, temporary law enforcement policies–such as reductions in traffic stops and speed enforcement–were enacted to help reduce the spread of the virus. Now augmenting and prioritizing the work of police officers is even more important, and radar speed signs from Radarsign do both.
Months Later and COVID Related Speeding is Still Up Despite Traffic’s Return
Agencies across the US have seen an upsurge in speeding in the wake of COVID shutdowns. Radar speed signs can be a powerful tool to slow dangerous driving behavior.
COVID Back to School Traffic Brings New Challenge
Schools can plan ahead for back to school safety by installing the latest in school-zone technology: Radarsign’s Hyper-Alert radar speed sign system, which notifies drivers to slow down to a much safer speed when approaching school zones.