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Eight members of the Hart family were reported killed when their vehicle travelled off the Pacific Coast Highway near Westport California. We should come to  accept that speculation will always exist, in one form or another, in the thoughts of many persons when...

Research by Gorski Consulting indicates that vehicular loss-of-control events would need to be very obvious or deadly before they become noted in police-reported collision data. The latest findings from an eight-year-long research study conducted by Gorski Consulting...

You know this could end badly! There are many policy-makers who trust their data and researchers to conclude that something is a good idea. One such good idea was the limiting of truck speeds in Ontario to just over 100 km/h. That seemed fine because these trucks...

Ontario’s new Police Act bill has been passed but it is uncertain whether its changes will be beneficial. Increasing the power of certain oversight bodies does not necessarily increase the benefits to society when monitoring and evaluating police actions. The question...

There is no need to obtain better data on why pedestrian collisions are on the increase. To almost all of us it is obvious. Why bother with more studies and statistics and data and ….We are all experts on why pedestrian collisions and their associated injuries and...

Why are police and news media not informing the public that the harpooning of the vehicle by a guardrail where a fatality occurred earlier this morning is not an acceptable consequence? Police and news media seem to be avoiding the obvious as a vehicle was reportedly...

This impact damage to the east railing at Wharncliffe Road and Horton Street in London in February, 2018 has not raised any safety eyebrows. Gorski Consulting has made several references to the dangers of roadside rails that, upon impact, create an exposed end of the...

Imagery from Google Maps shows an ET-Plus terminal that has jammed, likely as of an impact, on the northbound lanes of the Red Hill Valley Parkway at Queenston Road in Hamilton, Ontario. Did this ET-Plus terminal perform as it was designed? Gorski Consulting has...

The repetitive circumstances by which another driver died in relatively shallow water has received essentially no coverage in the official news media. The City-Pulse 24 News in Toronto published a brief mention of the incident, written by the Canadian Press, where...

While scant information is available news media report that a vehicle entered the Grand River west of Orangeville and a child occupant of the submerged vehicle is missing. Just after posting the news item below regarding the drowning near Jarvis, Ontario, news media...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

What would make a cyclist venture out on a cold and snowy day and into heavy traffic? Whatever the reason it is becoming more common on Ontario roadways. While many were happy when roads in North America began to become more cyclist-friendly, no one considered what...

What will we do if this Carillion dinosaur becomes extinct? Will your local grandma scramble onto Highway 401 and begin clearing it with a shovel?Privatization of the Province of Ontario’s road maintenance was sold to the public as a cost saving and the public...

A Difficult Dilemma: A major snowfall blocks the sidewalks, an elderly person needs to make an essential trip, a medical scooter without proper warnings and reflective materials travels onto a lane of busy roadway. It is surprising that more elderly riders of medical...

While they are called “sidewalk” plows many of these small units actually perform work on roadways and other areas where they may be struck by larger vehicles. But there has never been any consideration put to evaluating their safety for the plow driver. On Tuesday...