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Blacks often complain that they are singled out for traffic violations more often than whites–that in effect, they are being punished for "driving while black."

But what about blacks (and Hispanics) driving while female?

Sociologists analyzing police actions during routine traffic stops found that black and Hispanic women are just as likely as white men to be ticketed, arrested or searched during a traffic stop–in other words, this happens much less often than it does for their male counterparts.
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You think DRIVING is dangerous? How about CROSSING THE STREET? If you’re a pedestrian, you should know this: in the past year, for the first time in four years, pedestrian deaths rose exponentially.

The problem is that people are doing too many OTHER things when they should be looking and listening for cars. They’re texting (illegal to do while driving in most states, but not illegal while crossing the street) and their listening to music on their ear buds or talking on their cell phones.
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It’s happened to us all: driving along when suddenly, traffic comes to an almost complete stop. We crawl along thinking there must be an accident or a broken-down vehicle ahead, but just as suddenly as we slowed, traffic begins moving normally again with no accident or distressed auto in site.You have just been part of a phantom traffic jam.
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Stop polluting & start stopping – Do you get riled when you see drivers coast through stop signs, as if they were just a “suggestion?” Some experts think that stop signs are part of the problem instead of a solution. And taxi drivers in China may be playing loud radios but at least they’re breathing again.

According to Canadian traffic expert Said Easa, intersections with stop signs can be some of the deadliest places on the road. In 2005 the Ministry of Transportation reported 62,000 crossing and turning collisions at stop-sign controlled and other types of intersections throughout Ontario, resulting in nearly 150 deaths and approximately 16,000 injuries. That’s nearly five times the number of fatalities as rear-end collisions in the same year.
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