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Anyone who has tried to quit smoking cigarettes knows the painful physical and emotional agony that one must endure in order to kick the habit. While many choose to quit “cold turkey,” many others opt for a nicotine replacement product. Among the myriad of nicotine replacement products, nothing has come as close to the replacement...

It may not be an active thought that runs through your mind, but every time you get into a vehicle as a passenger you are placing your life into everyone else’s hands; both in the hands of your driver and every other driver you encounter on your route. It’s the last thing you want to...

In 2015, the newly elected mayor of Washington, D.C., promised to lead the nation’s capital into an era free of traffic fatalities. “We are taking our first step toward realizing a ‘Vision Zero’ where no lives are lost on our streets or at our intersections,’’ said Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, in her speech setting a...

Part of Malik Habib’s job was riding his bike. He delivered food, usually after dark, in Washington, D.C. On June 23, Habib’s tire got caught in the streetcar track on H Street Northwest. He didn’t have time to work his way out of the track, and he was hit and killed by a charter bus....

When most people hear the phrase "traumatic brain injury," or "TBI" they often assume a severe and direct impact to the head accompanied by a loss of consciousness, internal bleeding and an immediate onset of debilitating symptoms. They think of the inability to function and perform basic daily activities.  However, this scenario occurs only in...

Aggressive driving leads to more aggressive driving. Road rage is real. Sometimes we witness it from another lane, and in some cases it gets so out of hand we end up seeing the carnage on the nightly news. "We assume other drivers behave badly on purpose,'' says Dr. Christine Wickens, who studies road rage for the...

You don't have to look very far to find examples of road rage when you're behind the wheel. It could be the aggressive driver who cuts in and out of traffic without signaling. It could be the motorist who tailgates someone they feel is driving too slowly. It could even be the person you see...

Hear that noise? No? Then you could be in big trouble. One of the unique features of electric and hybrid cars is that they are quiet - too quiet, sometimes. When these cars are traveling at low speeds, pedestrians are in danger because they cannot hear the vehicles approaching. After years of delays, the U.S....

Recently, our District Department of Transportation released a report listing the most dangerous intersections in the District of Columbia in 2017. The analysis had an overall ranking, which focused on the severity, frequency, and rate of crashes. Contributing to this were three other sources of data, that compiled for  total number of accidents involving bicycles,...

We now live in the era of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and numerous  forms of social media pathways that have become windows into our daily lives and activities, and in some cases, into our privacy. By the stroke of a keyboard or click of a mouse we expose information about our personal lives, activities, family and...