To mark National Older Driver Safety Awareness Week from Dec. 1-5, AAA Northeast is spotlighting the rising number of fatal traffic crashes involving older drivers across the United States.
Between 2014 and 2023, the population of people 65 and older in the United States increased by 28%. During this same time, the number of older drivers involved in fatal crashes increased by 41%, while the number of older licensed drivers increased by 38%.
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A trek by state Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester, and local leaders over the bridge to Connecticut recently may make Bay State highways safer from wrong-way drivers.
Tarrโs visit to the Connecticut Department of Transportationโs Highway Operations Center in Newington to see a potential technological solution to the problem comes after a driver is accused of heading north on Route 128 south on the A. Piatt Andrew Bridge and colliding with a car carrying four young adult Gloucester residents.
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ROCKPORT โ A New Hampshire man is being held without bail, accused of attempting to trying to a Rockport residentโs vehicle by force.
Todd Andrew Wilbur, 42, of Derry, N.H., was arrested at 6:46 a.m. Wednesday on Story Street on charges of carjacking and assault and battery, according to a police log entry.
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JOPLIN, Mo.ย โ With tears in her eyes and a wave, Brittney Perrin drove off in her new 2008 Nissan sedan from the parking lot of Higher Power Garage.
The vehicle was one of nine provided to nine families through the organizationโs Barriers to Work Low-Cost Vehicle Program on Wednesday. Higher Power Garage staff watched as one by one the vehicles left the lot.
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JOPLIN, Mo.ย โ With tears in her eyes and a wave, Brittney Perrin drove off in her new 2008 Nissan sedan from the parking lot of Higher Power Garage.
The vehicle was one of nine provided to nine families through the organizationโs Barriers to Work Low-Cost Vehicle Program on Wednesday. Higher Power Garage staff watched as one by one the vehicles left the lot.
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JOPLIN, Mo.ย โ With tears in her eyes and a wave, Brittney Perrin drove off in her new 2008 Nissan sedan from the parking lot of Higher Power Garage.
The vehicle was one of nine provided to nine families through the organizationโs Barriers to Work Low-Cost Vehicle Program on Wednesday. Higher Power Garage staff watched as one by one the vehicles left the lot.
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TfL, to its credit, has made many efforts over the years to try to deal with the problem of hot tunnels, including attaching cooling panels to tunnel walls. The panels, which circulate water to remove heat from the air, were deployed in a trial in 2022, though they are not currently in use. Paul argues that such a system could be prohibitively expensive.
Hassan Hemida at the University of Birmingham says Paulโs water-cooling technology is a โgood idea,โ though it remains to be seen how much heat it could really remove from a real-life, busy Tube station full of people.
Certain railways simply push the boundaries of our ability to cool things down, says Hemida. He gives the example of super-high-speed trains traveling at, say, 400 kilometers per hour. They force air out of their way at high velocities, meaning the air pressure surrounding heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment on the roofs of those trains can drop significantly. โThen, you cannot suck air into the HVAC system,โ he says. Ultimately, that could cause the air-conditioning unit to fail. โI have been contacted by colleagues from China, and they want to find a solution for this problem,โ Hemida adds.
More and more train operators are adopting air-conditioning systems as standard, though. Londonโs still relatively new Elizabeth Line features air-conditioning, for example. And a spokesman for ล koda Transportation, which recently rolled out air-conditioned metro trains in the capital of Bulgaria, says: โGenerally, every vehicle we produce now is equipped with AC.โ Sharon Hedges, senior engagement manager at Transport Focus, an industry watchdog, adds: โAs people think about procuring new rolling stock, these are the kind of things that need to be uppermost in minds now.โ
Heat waves are one thing in Britain. What about the Egyptian desert? German tech company Siemens is supplying Egypt with a new set of high-speed trains that can travel at speeds of up to 230 kilometers per hour. The firmโs Velaro trains are used in many places around Europe, but for Egypt, Siemens has really put them through their paces. Last summer, the company took one of the trains to a test facility in Austria and exposed it to unpleasant conditions, including temperatures as high as 60 degrees Celsius and high winds. โWe are achieving 26 degree inside temperature at the hottest outside conditions,โ says Bjรถrn Buchholz, head of HVAC and door systems.