A groundbreaking investigation by the Kansas City Star finding that scores of motorists have been killed at unprotected rail crossings by oncoming trains in recent years has been named the top winner of the second annual Casey Feldman Transportation Safety Reporting Award. The report, by Judy L. Thomas, Laura Bauer and Kevin Hardy, found that
Even now, more than two years later, the terrible events of May 29, 2021, remain a painful blur for Laura Cutler. It was on that day that her father, Carl Cutler, a retired investment banker from the Philadelphia area, was hit by a distracted driver while biking near his home in Vero Beach Florida. Tragically,
Christmas and New Year’s day are a time of joy and celebration, but the holidays also bring heightened risks on the highway. According to a new analysis of traffic patterns and driver behavior, Christmas and New Year’s day are the most distracted driving days of the year. Christmas also is the day when drivers are
EndDD.org, a project of the Casey Feldman Foundation, is pleased to announce that we are accepting entries until September 1, 2023 for the second annual Casey Feldman Award for Transportation Safety Reporting. The award recognizes outstanding work in the area of transportation safety journalism and honors Casey Feldman, a senior journalism student at Fordham University who was killed by a distracted driver in 2009.
Erie Insurance Survey Results Provide Tips for Passengers to Speak Up When Their Drivers are Distracted As Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of the summer road trip season, a recent national survey commissioned by Erie Insurance has shed light on a compelling solution to tackle the dangerous issue of texting while driving. The survey
EndDD.org, a national organization established to campaign against distracted driving practices, has announced the first annual Casey Feldman Award for Transportation Safety Reporting. The award was established by The Casey Feldman Foundation and the journalism department of the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Media, Communication, and Information. The intention of the award, to be
National Passenger Safety Week: “We must speak up as passengers and will be most effective if we do so in a non-confrontational manner.” – Joel Feldman In 2010, Joel Feldman, founder of EndDD, produced a short video in which a deadly traffic accident is avoided because a passenger speaks up. “Dad,” says the daughter who
The Casey Feldman Foundation/EndDD.org is excited to announce the Casey Feldman Award for Traffic Safety Reporting sponsored in conjunction with the University of Colorado College of Media, Communication and Information. The Award has been created to recognize and honor reporters whose work informs the public about traffic safety. Traffic deaths, including those caused by distracted
How do we humans interact with the technologies we invent, like our cars and our cell phones? These are questions that have long interested Dr. Ian J. Reagan, senior research scientist at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Since joining the Institute in 2012, Dr. Reagan has been looking into how our every day
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