Highway Deaths in Rural America
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #714 in September 2022. The Governor’s Highway Safety Association (GHSA) released a study called America’s Rural Roads: Beautiful and Deadly earlier this month. Researchers found that between 2016 and 2020, 40 percent of US traffic deaths occurred on rural roads. A total of 85,002 […]
Driving Safely They Aren’t
Are you a ‘passive passer?’ Some motorists seem to have been conditioned to regard a safely executed fast pass as “unsafe” and for that reason, most don’t even try to pass. Instead, they meekly follow. Their pace is determined by the pace of the car ahead of them, whose driver refuses to drive even the speed limit. […]
Practice Driver Courtesy Year Round
Today is the last day of the National Motorists Association’s Driver Courtesy Month. If you have read the Driving in America Blog over the last four weeks, you will know that this year, the NMA’s Driver Education Committee has been working with freelance animator John Weeden to produce 15 different driver courtesy animations. We encourage […]
Week Four of NMA’s Driver Courtesy Month 2022
The National Motorists Association presents Driver Courtesy Month with a presentation of 15 animations developed by the NMA’s Driver Education Committee and freelance animator John Weeden. Each of the five Fridays in September on the Driving in America Blog, we are presenting three of the animations. If you would like to see them all at […]
Highway Deaths in Rural America: NMA E-Newsletter #714
The Governor’s Highway Safety Association (GHSA) released a study called America’s Rural Roads: Beautiful and Deadly earlier this month. Researchers found that between 2016 and 2020, 40 percent of US traffic deaths occurred on rural roads. A total of 85,002 people died in rural areas during the five-year study period—nearly half of all traffic deaths across the country. This […]
Week Three of NMA’s Driver Courtesy Month 2022
The National Motorists Association presents Driver Courtesy Month 2022 with a presentation of 15 animations developed by the NMA’s Driver Education Committee and freelance animator John Weeden. Each of the five Fridays in September on the Driving in America Blog, we are presenting three of the animations. If you would like to see them all […]
Week Two of NMA’s Driver Courtesy Month 2022
The National Motorists Association presents Driver Courtesy Month with a presentation of 15 animations developed by the NMA’s Driver Education Committee and freelance animator John Weeden. Each of the five Fridays in September on the Driving in America Blog, we are presenting three of the animations. If you would like to see them all at […]
Driver Courtesy Month September 2022: NMA E-Newsletter #712
You have probably seen those signs on large trucks that ask, “How is my Driving?” The National Motorists Association’s Driving Courtesy Month 2022 is like that–a way to think about your own driving in, we hope, a fun, and straightforward way. We can all use a tune-up every once in a while. This year, the National Office […]
Driver Courtesy Month 2022 Begins!
The National Motorists Association presents Driver Courtesy Month 2022 during September and this year we have something spectacular for you! The NMA’s Driver Education Committee along with freelance animator John Weeden developed 15 animations that depict various areas of driver courtesy. If you would like to check them out all at once, click here. Over […]
Don’t Be a Road Rager or the Victim of One
Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared as the cover story in the Fall 2021 Edition of the National Motorists Association’s quarterly magazine Driving Freedoms. If you would like to receive our magazine, please become a member of the NMA today! Driving is an act of responsibility and trust. On the road, we have faith that […]