Tag: Highway Deaths
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Self-Driving CDOT crash truck protects highway workers
Highway work zone crashes kill hundreds of people nationwide each year — two Colorado workers last year — but a new driverless, autonomous highway maintenance truck in Colorado aims to shield workers from deadly rear-end collisions by taking the hit itself. At a press event in Falcon on Monday, the Colorado Department of Transportation demonstrated…
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$3.2 million in NHTSA grants for highway safety improvements awarded to Colorado municipalities
U.S. Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet announced a new $3.2 million grant for creating highway safety plans for five cities, towns and counties from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program. The money adds to the $28.6 million in grants for 11 projects in Colorado awarded earlier this…