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Flagger on M-124, Hayes State Park, Michigan Traffic guard on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Traffic guards, also known as traffic controllers and flaggers, are trained to set up warning signs and barricades to slow down the speed of traffic in a temporary traffic control zone.
The Trash and Recycling Didn't Go Out. Again, any deviation from your typical home routine can indicate your house is vacant. “Most burglars often stake out a victim’s place before putting ...
Traffic barrier with a pedestrian guardrail behind it. Traffic barriers (known in North America as guardrails or guard rails, [1] in Britain as crash barriers, [2] and in auto racing as Armco barriers [3]) keep vehicles within their roadway and prevent them from colliding with dangerous obstacles such as boulders, sign supports, trees, bridge abutments, buildings, walls, and large storm drains ...
Safe Driving Day, or S-D Day was a US holiday introduced in 1954 "to focus national attention on the traffic accident problem". [1] The effort was kicked off by President Eisenhower in a November 16, 1954 statement in which he called on Americans to "help make it a day without a single traffic accident throughout our entire country."
The Smith System is a defensive driving strategy [1] created in 1952 by Harold L. Smith. [2] [3] Smith's goal was to increase the safety of commercial drivers. [2]After he opened the Safeway Driving School in Detroit in 1948, [4] Smith established the Smith System Driver Improvement Institute in 1952.
In the United States, Vermont passed a similar Red Flag Law in 1894, only to repeal it two years later. [2] This law stated that "[t]he owner or person in charge of a carriage, vehicle or engine propelled by steam, except road rollers" must have a "person of mature age [...] at least one-eight of a mile in advance of" the vehicle, to warn those with livestock of its impending arrival.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. Directionality of traffic flow by jurisdiction Countries by direction of road traffic, c. 2020 ⇅ Left-hand traffic ⇵ Right-hand traffic No data Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side and to the ...
Safe-driving policies implemented in the workplace can promote safer driving away from work. In addition, employers, as purchasers of large fleets of vehicles, can spur improvements in vehicle safety, and encourage development of road safety capacity and legislation in the local areas and countries in which they operate, thereby improving road ...