A 17-year-old boy in Massachusetts died in a car accident on April 30. The fatal crash took place in Adams and involved two vehicles. Police responded to the scene of the accident near the intersection of Staples Street and North Summer Street at around 5:15 p.m.
A student who was attending a Massachusetts university was killed in a single-vehicle car crash that occurred on April 23. According to authorities, the deceased student, a 19-year-old man from Vermont, was a student at Endicott College. A second man, age 20, suffered critical injuries.
A man in Massachusetts was killed after being involved in a two-car collision in Foxborough on April 18. The deceased victim, a 61-year-old man from Millis, was one of the drivers in the accident. Authorities reported the accident the day that it happened and then confirmed that one of the drivers had died the following day.
On April 9, a crash that occurred in Massachusetts left one person dead and three others injured. The accident took place at about 11 p.m. near the 500 block of Union Street in Weymouth.
Auto showrooms in Massachusetts are packed with vehicles containing all manner of sophisticated electronic equipment. While accident avoidance systems and other electronic safety features may be designed to save lives, equipment that informs or entertains drivers could actually make the nation’s roads more dangerous. The National Safety Council says that most American drivers assume that GPS, audio and communications features are perfectly safe to use while behind the wheel, and the nonprofit organization has decided to spend April trying to correct such misconceptions and remind motorists of the dangers of distracted driving.
As self-driving cars come closer to everyday reality for the people of Massachusetts, industries that depend upon the current state of affairs in the automotive industry are concerned that the future of autonomous transportation may leave them out. For example, the automobile insurance industry is looking at the extraordinarily low rates of injury and property damage accompanying self-driving cars and considering that they may not be able to survive in their current form.
According to a new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, cars and trucks equipped with front crash prevention systems are significantly less likely to be involved in rear-end crashes. Further, the study says that if all vehicles in Massachusetts and across the U.S. had automatic-braking systems, there would have been around 700,000 fewer rear-end accidents reported to the police in 2013.
An increased risk of deadly accidents confronts drivers in Massachusetts according to 2015 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics. After years of declining traffic fatalities, a nationwide increase in roadway deaths has been identified.
Analysts say that motorists in Massachusetts and other states could soon see the first instances of autonomous vehicles in action. In early February, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, decided that the Google-developed artificial intelligence systems that operate the company’s self-driving vehicles could be treated like drivers. This follows a January announcement by the NHTSA that it would attempt to make roads more accessible to driver-free cars by potentially shelving some existing safety regulations.
An accident on a Massachusetts road can range in severity from minor to fatal, but Volvo hopes to make deadly accidents a concern of the past by 2020. While it is clear that a driver bent on reckless driving may not be able to avoid deadly incidents, Volvo’s developing technologies have the potential to minimize damages for those motorists who are attempting to observe safe driving practices. In fact, a number of smart features have been used in the brand’s vehicles already, and the combination of these may provide significant safety advantages even now.
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