On March 3rd, the American Society of Civil Engineers released their 2021 Report Card for American Infrastructure, and while the report had some good news, there are still major problems. The American Society of Civil Engineers is a professional body headquartered in Virginia, that represents civil engineers around that world. Founded in 1852, it’s the oldest national engineering society in the United States,…
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, and the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) has announced that the theme for the annual observation of this serious affliction for the next three years, will be “More Than My Brain Injury”. The More Than My Brain Injury campaign seeks to help educate the general public about the struggles involved in living with a brain injury….
KRDO Newschannel 13 released a special report earlier this month, where they identified the most dangerous intersections in Colorado Springs. The Colorado Springs Police Department provided KRDO with a list of the city intersections that had the largest numbers of motor vehicle accidents for the year 2020. This data included the number of accidents that resulted in a fatality or injury of any…
Weather has been a big news topic this month, after large parts of the country got pummeled by severe and intense winter storms. In Texas, an uncharacteristic cold storm killed 26 people, caused pipes to burst and left millions of people without water or power. With the expectation that the United States will continue to see extreme weather events in the future, due…
US Drug Test Centers, an established national drug testing company, released a report looking at the rates of drunken driving in the United States, in which they ranked each state for how big a problem DUI behaviors are, and Colorado did not fare well. The report focused on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from the United States Department of…
Last month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that California, Ohio and Texas were going to be receiving grant money totaling 1.3 million dollars, in order to alert motor vehicle owners about open recalls going on for their vehicles. The grant money will be used by the appropriate governmental departments and agencies in each state, to contact consumers with descriptions of the…
As of the end of 2020, there are thirty-six states in the United States where marijuana is legal for medicinal purposes, and 15 for recreational usage, with South Dakota, New Jersey and Montana being the newest additions. Indeed, many people have been making convincing arguments for decades that marijuana should be legalized, or at the very least decriminalized, citing everything from the failure…
Insurance rate comparison website, QuoteWizard, released its fifth annual ranking of the best and worst drivers state by state at the end of last year, and while it wasn’t the worst of all 50 states, Colorado did not get great rankings, coming in as the number three state with the worst drivers in the country. Of course, complaining about other drivers is almost…
A research analysis was released this month from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and AAA Colorado, looking at the data on all motor vehicle collisions that occurred in the United States between the years 2009 to 2018, and the results were troubling. According to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, pedestrian traffic fatalities across the country were up around 53%…
According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, 2020 was the worst year on record for traffic accident fatalities, with 51 deaths occurring last year alone. The previous record was held by 2018 which had 48 fatalities. The 51st and last fatal accident of 2020 occurred on December 9th, when 67-year-old Colorado Springs resident William James was struck by a pickup truck while crossing…
