With Hillsborough and Pinellas counties reporting pedestrian fatality rates higher than the national average, the Florida Department of Transportation today is launching a "Stop and Look" campaign for drivers and pedestrians. "The Stop and Look safety campaign will encourage pedestrians to be predictable to motorists and for motorists to drive alert and share the road," department District 7 Secretary of Transportation Don Skelton said in a news release. ...more

August 20, 2009

Volunteers and students will canvas parts of St. Petersburg and Temple Terrace on Saturday as part of an American Red Cross fire safety campaign. The agency's Tampa Bay chapter is sending volunteers to certain neighborhoods in St. Petersburg to hand out fire-prevention information. At the same time, a student group from Florida College will go to apartment complexes north of the University of South Florida's Temple Terrace campus to alert renters of the potential fire dangers in their homes. ...more

October 23, 2008

Business for Florida MotorSports owner Kent Johnson is booming. "Our scooter sales and our small displacement motorcycle sales are up over 250 percent," Johnson said. Motorcycle sales in Florida reached 100,000 last year. Halfway through 2008, 82,000 bikes have sold. The reason is obvious. ...more

July 15, 2008

Driving along Interstate 75 is about to get safer. The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Friday kicked off its "Guard Your Life -Drive Alert On I-75" safety campaign aimed at reducing deaths and crashes along that busy road. ...more

June 17, 2008

FDOT hopes to reduce head-on crashes. ...more

June 16, 2008

Accidents in China's notoriously dangerous coal mines killed nearly 3,800 people last year, state media reported Saturday - a toll that is a marked improvement from previous years but still leaves China's mines the world's deadliest. ...more

January 13, 2008

An average of 3,500 car crashes with injuries happen every year on U.S. 19 in the 95-mile stretch between Pinellas and Citrus counties, according to the Florida Department of Transportation. ...more

October 8, 2007

Aggressive drivers on U.S. 19 will be the target of a safety campaign the Florida Department of Transportation will launch in the Holiday area on Wednesday. ...more

October 8, 2007

Officials must try harder to resolve China's product safety problems, especially at lower levels that oversee manufacturing, the chief of a special panel says. ...more

October 2, 2007