Category: Road & Travel Safety

Traveling to another country is one of the great pleasures in life — and a completely different risk environment than the one you know. Abroad, the laws are different, the emergency number isn’t 911, your health insurance may not work, the local scams are unfamiliar, and the safety net you take for granted at home…

Winter Driving and the Emergency Kit for Your Trunk Winter has a way of turning an ordinary drive into something genuinely dangerous. Snow, ice, and a few seconds of lost traction are all it takes — and the numbers bear it out: in a recent year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration counted more than…

You buckled your child in. The seat feels solid, the straps are clipped, everything looks right. And that’s exactly the problem — because for a huge share of families, “looks right” and “is right” are two very different things. Car crashes are a leading cause of death for children, and a correctly used car seat…

Ask a room full of drivers to rate their own skill, and almost all of them will put themselves above average. It’s one of the most reliably documented quirks in psychology — and statistically, of course, it’s impossible. We can’t all be better than most of us. That gap between how good we think we…