by Zygmunt Gorski | Feb 13, 2018 | News
13-year-old Avery Kernaghan was killed in a collision on Glendon Drive west of London, Ontario on Saturday, February 10, 2018. Her father, Douglas, remains in critical condition. As noted numerous times on this website, sympathy for the surviving family and friends of...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Feb 10, 2018 | News
In the last several years a controversy has erupted in South-Western Ontario with respect to the incidence of median cross-over collisions occurring along the 118-kilometre segment of Highway 401 where no median barriers exist. This section of the busy super-highway...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Feb 8, 2018 | News
On high speed highways not all drivers are able to detect stopped vehicles or construction workers ahead of their path. Automatic detection and deployment of automatic emergency braking could be very beneficial but that technology may take a long time to reach the...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Feb 7, 2018 | News
In a CBC news item entitled “Angel who pulled teens from car wreckage says he’s no superhero” the public may be rather skeptical when observing the photograph of the collision site where Richard Kirk found a car upside down in a water-filled ditch near Wolfville, Nova...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Feb 5, 2018 | News
Depending on whose viewpoint, the image of the scales of justice is not always complimentary. (An editorial comment by Zygmunt M. Gorski) Few structures in society are as important as a reliable system of justice. In the end, that reliability rests on the wisdom,...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Feb 4, 2018 | News
In the fall of 2017 the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released figures for the number of roadway deaths that occurred in the U.S. in 2016. 37,461 persons were reportedly killed which represented an increase of 5.6 percent over 2015. This...