Car crashes have continued to increase even when traffic was reduced across the metro area by 40% for many months due to Covid. We are now seeing traffic increasing with the reopening of businesses and schools. As it stands, roadway travel across Missouri is more than just customarily risky. We…
PAY ATTENTION is the simple point of the new release from MoDOT So, you may not know what an impact attenuator is? No doubt, you have seen these objects mounted on the back of a MoDOT truck or on the roadside. An impact attenuator is an object designed to absorb…
Look Twice and Save a Life! In the last couple of months, we have not been focused on traffic as road travel has been greatly reduced. Traffic is back and motorcycles are out. There have been multiple fatal and serious injury motorcycle crashes in the last two months with…
Over 800 Snow Related Crashes in Missouri While the snow predictions were between 2-10 inches; we did, in fact get hit by a snowstorm. There were more than 800 snow-related crashes that injured 57 people and killed four people in Missouri. The timing in which the storm came may have…
Snow Predicted for Early Saturday Morning The National Weather Service predicts four to six inches of snow for the greater St. Louis area beginning on Friday evening. While the precipitation may be in the form of rain on Friday afternoon, but is expected to turn to snow in the early…
Know How You are Getting Home Safely after the Party So, you know the Where and the When of your New Year’s Eve party, but unless safe/sober transportation home is planned— Planning is not complete. In order to make sure that the entire gang is here for the New Year’s Day hangover, one…
Saint Louis, Second Most Dangerous City for Car Crashes There are many lists that St. Louis City wants to achieve, but being one of the most dangerous cities for car crashes is a list we would like to avoid. Two Midwestern cities made the list: Columbus, OH and St. Louis, MO. St….
Snow and Ice Season is Here After a warm and rather short autumn, we were launched into winter over the weekend. If you are north of Interstate 70 this weekend, then you got a healthy dose of winter weather. Sunday, as many northern Missourians woke up to blizzard-like conditions, those in St….
Fatal Crashes Should Raise Awareness for All of Us Of all of the troops at the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Troop A covering counties Johnson, Bates, Henry, Pettis, Jackson, Lafayette, Cass, and Saline worked a number of crashes including two fatal crashes and multiple injuries. Fatal Crash In Henry County…
“Driving Under the Influence” As there are so many DUI’s arrests in the US, they become “common”. Sometimes people fail to think about the severity of driving under the influence. This is odd since most of us have been indirectly, if not directly, impacted by a drunk driver. In 2016, there were about 222…
