Research in Utah suggests that higher speed limits reduce accidents, but other research indicates speed can raise accident likelihood and crash severity. The way that higher speed limits affect traffic safety is an ongoing topic of debate among lawmakers and safety experts. Proponents of higher speeds hold that they reduce speeding and ensure that all drivers travel at similar rates, while advocates of slower speeds argue that high-speed crashes are more severe and difficult to avoid. The question of how speed impacts safety has become especially important for drivers in Provo, as Utah lawmakers have recently increased more state speed

In the early June 2013, a Salt Lake City motorcycle squad police officer suffered broken bones and road rash after he was involved in an accident because of debris in the road. Other officers who were travelling with him and witnessed the accident described the officer as lucky to have escaped with as little damage as he sustained, given the speeds they were driving and the size of the object he struck. The officer’s accident demonstrates the threat that vehicles traveling with improperly secured loads pose to other Utah drivers. Utah Auto Accidents Resulting from Debris According to

With the extreme popularity of social networking, it should come as no surprise that a San Diego company has developed an application to connect people to each other-while they’re driving. Bump.com promises that drivers across the country can connect to each other using e-mails, texts and voice mail, all through a scan of their license plates. Security cameras on the roads take photos of license plates. The program scans and recognizes license plate numbers and matches them with e-mail accounts, mobile phones and location systems so that people are able to communicate. Even if an individual has no

Utah is quickly becoming a leader in the use of continuous flow intersections, known as CFIs, to cost effectively improve driving safety and congestion. In 2007, Salt Lake City became home to the fourth continuous flow intersection in the United States. Since then, a total of seven CFIs have been constructed along Bangerter Highway, with plans for an additional four CFIs to be built in 2013. How CFIs differ from traditional intersections CFIs improve traffic conditions by eliminating the “left-turn” phase required by traditional intersections. During the left turn phase, all other traffic must remain stopped at an