A new IIHS study shows that increases in speed limits over two decades have cost 33,000 lives in the U.S. In 2013 alone, the increases resulted in 1,900 additional deaths, essentially canceling out the number of lives saved by frontal airbags that year. Maximum speed limits are set by the states, and they have been on the rise since 1995. However, during most of the 1970s and 1980s, the threat of financial penalties held state speed limits to 55 mph. In 1973, Congress required that states adopt 55 mph as their maximum speed limit in order to receive their share of highway funds. Concerns over fuel availability, rather than safety, had prompted Congress to pass the measure, known as the National Maximum Speed Limit, but the most dramatic result was a decrease in fatalities. In 1987, with energy concerns fading, Congress relaxed the restriction, allowing states to increase speed limits to 65 mph on rural interstates. The law was completely repealed in 1995. To see the full article, go to: www.iihs.org/

The Toyota Prius V is the only midsize car out of 31 evaluated to earn a good rating in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's first-ever headlight ratings. The best available headlights on 11 cars earn an acceptable rating, while nine only reach a marginal rating. Ten of the vehicles can't be purchased with anything other than poor-rated headlights. A vehicle's price tag is no guarantee of decent headlights. Many of the poor-rated headlights belong to luxury vehicles. The ability to see the road ahead, along with any pedestrians, bicyclists or obstacles, is an obvious essential for drivers. However, government standards for headlights, based on laboratory tests, allow huge variation in the amount of illumination that headlights provide in actual on-road driving. With about half of traffic deaths occurring either in the dark or in dawn or dusk conditions, improved headlights have the potential to bring about substantial reductions in fatalities. To see the full article, go to: www.iihs.org/

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Logistics company Schneider is being credited for helping road safety and the health of its truck drivers following a decade-long sleep apnea screening and treatment program. Conducted by the University of Minnesota, the study, which is believed to be a first among large logistics companies, has been screening truck drivers for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and monitoring treatment adherence by the drivers. Now the program is being hailed as having a dramatic and positive effect on road safety with the study findings being accepted for publication in the medical journal 'Sleep'. The study involved more than 1,600 Schneider drivers with OSA and an equal number of control drivers with comparable job experience and tenure and saw drivers receive a treatment machine that could be used at home and in the truck sleeper berth. To see the full article, go to: behindthewheel.com.au/

Need a little more sleep? If you work for Aetna Inc., you can get paid to do it. CEO Mark Bertolini thinks getting some shuteye is "really important," so he pays his employees as much as $500 to get more of it, according to CNBC News. "You can't be prepared if you're half-asleep," he said in an interview with CNBC. "Being present in the workplace and making better decisions has a lot to do with our business fundamentals. The program uses fitness trackers to keep track of how much sleep the employees get. If they sleep for seven or more hours a night for 20 nights in a row, Aetna will pay them $25 for each night. The cap is $500 per year. Seven hours is the minimum amount of nightly sleep recommended by the National Institutes of Health, CNBC reported. But according to a report from McKinsey & Company Insights, about 43% of 196 business leaders surveyed said there are several days a week where they don't get enough sleep. To see the full article, go to: www.bizjournals.com/

Older drivers with a history of falling are 40% more likely to be involved in crashes than their peers, according to a new study released by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Falls limit an older drivers' ability to function behind the wheel and can make driving risky for themselves and others on the road. These findings are important since annually a record 12 million older adults will experience a fall. The report, Associations Between Falls and Driving Outcomes in Older Adults, is the latest research released in the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety's Longitudinal Research on Aging Drivers (LongROAD) project. Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus along with the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety say that falls can increase crash risk in two ways: Falls can result in a loss of functional ability (i.e. wrist fractures or a broken leg), which can make it difficult for older drivers to steer or brake to avoid a crash and falls can increase an individual's fear of falling, which can lead to a decrease in physical activity that weakens driving skills. To see the full press release, go to: newsroom.aaa.com/ To view the study, go to: www.aaafoundation.org/

Passengers, do you feel uncomfortable every time the driver is distracted by their mobile phones while behind the wheel? How about some unexpected physical contact to solve the dangerous behavior? That's the idea behind the New Zealand Transport Authority's new road safety campaign. The campaign, titled 'Hello', uses Lionel Ritchie's hit song in a manner that results in the drivers' eyes being wide open and blank faces each time they even consider reaching for the phone. Calling it creepy, awkward or perfect is very much dependent on the viewer. We won't spoil the content here, but it is quite a humorous ad to watch. To see the full article with a link to the short video, go to: paultan.org/

As part of Distracted Driving Awareness Month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is encouraging employers to enact a company policy on distracted driving. Employers can download a sample policy and customize it to meet their own needs. The agency is also recommending that companies distribute pledge forms to employees and urge them to share the form with friends and family. In 2014, 3,179 people were killed and an additional 431,000 were injured in collisions involving distracted drivers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. That same year, inattention collisions resulted in the death of 104 people and the injury of 11,436 others in California, according to NHTSA. To see the full article, go to: www.automotive-fleet.com/

The NIOSH Center for Motor Vehicle Safety recently released the second issue of Behind the Wheel at Work, a quarterly eNewsletter covering work-related motor vehicle safety topics. This issue features many user-friendly resources to help employers improve motor vehicle safety at work, including distracted driving-related tips, how to keep older drivers safe in the workplace, and ways to check your knowledge of advanced vehicle safety features. Access the newsletter here: www.cdc.gov/ You may subscribe to the free quarterly eNewsletter by scrolling down to the bottom of the above link.

This fact sheet provides information on how changes associated with aging may affect older workers' driving and ability to recover from a crash injury. Older workers bring extensive skills, knowledge, and experience to their jobs. But, workers age 55 or older are at a higher risk of dying in a motor vehicle crash at work compared to younger adult workers. Use the provided checklists that feature action steps and resources to help you, your co-workers, and your employees continue driving safely. To view the fact sheet, go to: www.cdc.gov/

Vehicle safety innovations are still benefitting too few road users in Europe due to an over-reliance on a voluntary testing program rather than regulatory standards, according to a new report by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC). For almost twenty years, increases in levels of car safety in Europe have been driven mainly by the voluntary Euro NCAP program which awards the safest cars with a 5-star rating. But according to new data, only around half of new vehicles sold in 2013 had been awarded 5 stars by Euro NCAP during the 2010-13 testing cycle. One popular model, the Dacia Duster, received only 3 stars and performed particularly poorly in pedestrian safety crash tests. According to ETSC, the main block to faster progress on safety is that legally-mandated safety standards are years out of date. A car that only meets the current minimum safety standards in the EU would receive a zero-star rating today from Euro NCAP according to the report. Euro NCAP only tests a selection of vehicles each year, and also does not test every variant of each model. The EU is set to revise vehicle safety standards, as well as the vehicle 'type approval' process over the coming year. To see the full article, go to: etsc.eu/

The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees (PRAISE) project continues to provide a range of excellent resources and events for managing at-work drivers. The most recent publications have focused on building road safety into supply chains through procurement and managing young drivers in the workplace. All the reports and more details about the project are freely available at: etsc.eu/praise

The guide is targeted to employers, employees and safety experts of the transportation sector. After several years in development, the EU-OSHA e-guide on vehicle safety (VeSafe) and driving at work has been launched, providing a range of good practices. It also identifies that the vehicle is part of the workplace under Safety Framework Directive 89/391/EEC. This requires employers to evaluate the risks to the health and safety of their workers and take the necessary control measures. VeSafe can be accessed via: osha.europa.eu/

The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety have announced a historic commitment by 20 automakers representing more than 99% of the U.S. auto market to make automatic emergency braking (AEB) a standard feature on virtually all new cars no later than NHTSA's 2022 reporting year, which begins Sept 1, 2022. The unprecedented commitment means that this important safety technology will be available to more consumers more quickly than would be possible through the regulatory process. AEB systems help prevent crashes or reduce their severity by applying the brakes for the driver. The systems use on-vehicle sensors such as radar, cameras or lasers to detect an imminent crash, warn the driver and apply the brakes if the driver does not take sufficient action quickly enough. To see the full press release, go to: www.nhtsa.gov/ 152ee80cbc

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