High-profile advocates urge leaders to treat road safety as seriously as killer diseases

World leaders urged to boost road safety

MOSCOW — Former NATO chief George Robertson and movie actress Michelle Yeoh urged world leaders Wednesday to treat traffic accidents as though they were a killer disease.

China orders death penalty for man who killed 4 in drunken driving accident

BEIJING — A court in southwestern China has sentenced a man to death for a drunken driving accident that killed four people, in what state media said Friday was a first for the country.

NC gov. bans text-messaging by motorists, gets word out by texting: ‘Hope u r not driving now’

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina has become the seventh state to pass a ban this year on texting while driving. So how did Gov. Beverly Perdue get the word out?

Safety board cites driver fatigue, says federal agency was factor in bus crash severity

WASHINGTON — Maurice and Teresa Washington were relaxing in the back row of a charter bus the night of Jan. 6, 2008, watching a movie on the way home from a weekend ski trip, when their lives were shattered.

Safety board says federal agency supposed to protect public was factor in bus crash severity

WASHINGTON — A federal safety board on Tuesday cited driver fatigue as the cause of an Utah bus crashed that killed nine and injured 43 others, but blamed inaction by another safety agency for the severity of the accident.

Federal safety investigators cite high speed, driver fatigue in Utah bus crash that killed 9

WASHINGTON — Safety investigators said Tuesday that a bus was traveling 88 to 92 miles per hour when it crashed last year in Utah, killing nine and injuring 43 others. Driver fatigue was likely the root cause of the crash, they said.