Jeff McMurray

School drop-off

30-year-old juggles 2 jobs and double shifts but keeps losing work due to school drop-off: ‘As a mom, you just find a way around it’

By Jeff McMurray, Linley Sanders, and others

Vehicles drive along Mitchaw Road past Pacesetter Park Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in Sylvania Township, Ohio. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Today’s speed limits grew out of studies on rural roads from the 1930s and 1940s. Now states are looking to change guidelines

By Jeff McMurray and The Associated Press

Kate Hippler adjusts a THOR-5F female crash test dummy in a vehicle at Humanetics in Farmington Hills, Mich., Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Car safety tests are still using the same 47-year-old crash test dummy modeled after a 5-foot-9 man, even though women are more likely to be injured

By Jeff McMurray and The Associated Press

People gather at a vigil, March 22, 2024, in Renton, Wash., for the four people, Andrea Hudson, Matilda Wilcoxson, Eloise Wilcoxson and Boyd “Buster” Brown, who were killed in a car crash. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times via AP)

Virginia, Washington and Georgia want judges to force dangerous drivers to install car devices that stop them from speeding

By Jeff McMurray and The Associated Press

FILE – Former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., testifies before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, for his nomination to be Transportation Secretary. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Transportation secretary’s memo to tie funding to marriage and birth rates is called ‘bizarre and a little creepy’

By Jeff McMurray, Susan Haigh, and others

Happy Latin American mother driving her kids to school and smiling

Parents are turning to rideshare apps as schools cut back on bus service amid driver shortage

By Jeff McMurray and The Associated Press

cars drive through intersection

Autonomous cars could change our century-old traffic signal system with the addition of white lights, researchers say

By Jeff McMurray and The Associated Press

Hoboken, New Jersey

America’s 4th-densest city has wiped out traffic fatalities by taking a page from Sweden and eliminating parking spots

By Jeff McMurray and The Associated Press

The site of a fire is shown under Interstate 10 in Los Angeles

The fire that shut down a huge LA freeway was arson, Gov. Gavin Newsom claims

By John Antczak, Julie Watson, and others

Bicycle

Bicycle, safety advocates nationwide say enough is enough: It’s time for cities to ban right turns on red lights

By Jeff McMurray and The Associated Press

Van ride

A small North Carolina city’s bus service had such long wait times that it canceled it for van rides costing just $1.50 apiece

By Jeff McMurray and The Associated Press