Should overpass protesting be prohibited? Legal analysts weigh in.
When CJ analyzed crash data surrounding recurring protests on a pedestrian bridge over Interstate 40 in Durham, the findings raised serious public-safety concerns.
CJ analysis of crash data shows crashes doubled when protests were scheduled on the bridge compared with the same time windows on adjacent Wednesdays and Thursdays without scheduled protests.
The bill requires drivers whose licenses are revoked for reckless driving or extreme speeding offenses to install speed-limiting technology as a condition of restored driving privileges.
For Rudzki’s family, the push for reform is about more than legislation. It is an effort to ensure that his life and work are remembered.
During Thanksgiving week in 2024, a total of 23 people were killed and 65% of those were not wearing a seat belt.
During the early stage of the COVID crisis in 2020, my daily commute got super easy. Then it got scary hard. While my staff and I worked from home for a few weeks, we soon concluded that some of our tasks could only be performed effectively in the office. So we resumed normal operations, albeit...
Let me be clear, before I get too far into this piece, that I’m a big fan of good health. I try to eat right, I work out or run about every day, and, even at my advanced age, consider myself physically fit. I like bicycles, too, and I’m thinking about getting one. But they...
As our state continues to grow and develop, we will need to have transportation revenue and expenditure systems that keep up with demand and produce high value for every dollar invested.
The number of accidents attributable to the misuse or distractions of cell phones is a tiny, tiny percentage of the reasonable and convenient uses of those phones.
Maybe it’s just a temporary lapse in judgment triggered by sleep deprivation, or pity for the South’s least-popular governor, but I find myself agreeing with Mike Easley.
A proposal to ban cell phone use by North Carolina drivers failed Tuesday to get a favorable report from a House panel. There may be some good reasons for caution here.