Reporting and analysis grouped around #RoadSafety.
Police in Moline, Illinois, say the camera network aided major criminal investigations, including murder cases. The city is still ending the program as privacy concerns and weakening public confidence prevail.
Hawaii’s lack of a dedicated highway patrol makes it an outlier in US traffic enforcement, but a layered policing structure still monitors roads and can stop drivers.
Police pursued a 21-year-old alleged to be driving a three-axle flatbed truck for about an hour despite having no licence, with the vehicle reportedly reaching 76 mph in a 20 mph zone.
Police investigating a reported road-rage incident used Flock camera data to identify a dark Ram truck, but officers instead surrounded the home of an unrelated vehicle owner at about 4 a.m.
Washington police avoided a pursuit yet apprehended the drivers of a Porsche 911 and Audi R8 after a dashcam captured a street-racing run at 107 mph on a road posted at 35 mph.
A reader discussion has turned attention to the small but enduring driving errors that linger for years, from entering a one-way street incorrectly to selecting drive instead of reverse.
Police in the UK can now seize vehicles used in antisocial behaviour without issuing a prior warning, placing illegal off-road riders and drivers under sharper enforcement pressure.
