Traffic Safety

WASHINGTON — Getting around D.C. comes with a higher risk at some intersections than others, a new list of 2018’s most dangerous intersections in the city shows.

WASHINGTON — Drivers on D.C. roads racked up $324 million in tickets last year, and Maryland drivers ended the year with the most money unpaid.

The District Department of Transportation wants to make clear to drivers that the city’s bike lanes are not to be used for parking, or to pick up or drop off passengers; it also wants to leave no doubt about the rules for traffic…

The prohibition on plastic straws drew most of the attention, but the new year also began with a more under-the-radar ban: biking with headphones.

WASHINGTON — New D.C. rules would make it crystal clear: Drivers cannot stop in or otherwise block bike lanes.

WASHINGTON — “No right turn on red” signs will start going up in dozens of new D.C. locations starting Feb. 19, as long as weather permits.

A 32-year-old man who was killed last year in a crash involving a D.C. fire engine responding to a call in Northeast Washington failed to yield to the emergency vehicle, according to a report released Friday.

WASHINGTON — D.C. is moving to ban right turns on red lights at another 100 intersections by July.

An alleged hit-and-run motorist accused of striking two pedestrians in Northeast Washington last summer, killing one of them, was arrested Tuesday and charged with involuntary manslaughter, D.C. police said.

A team of researchers at Howard University’s Transportation Research Center, part of the school’s engineering and architecture college, will study D.C. traffic crashes and potential safety improvements over the course of five years, thanks…

As part of D.C.’s effort to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2024, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is setting up a new Vision Zero office that will focus on safety strategies, including through engineering,…

Picture this: You’re sitting at a busy District intersection with your turn signal on waiting to turn left. Traffic from the other direction is heavy. You’re poised to find your opening. Maybe your phone goes off. Or your kids are screaming…

On a walk through NoMa on Wednesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser committed to fixing one of the more vexing intersections in the District, the triangular plot of land that forms a “virtual circle” where New York Avenue crosses Florida Avenue in…

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has selected a transportation policy veteran to lead the city’s ambitious plan to dramatically reduce traffic fatalities.

The District is behind only New Hampshire when looking at such deaths as a percentage of all traffic fatalities

When there's a significant snow, we can see where motor vehicles are driving on the roads because they push the snow aside. The spots where this doesn't happen shows us where there's extra pavement that might be better used in other ways.…

After a year marked by a rise in traffic fatalities, the District is entering 2019 with a plan city officials hope will make streets safer for its 700,000 residents and the hundreds of thousands more who visit and work in the nation’s…

If you speed and ignore other rules of the road in the District — and get caught — it’s going to cost you more starting today.

Officials hope the move will help reduce traffic crashes and deaths as part of the District’s Vision Zero initiative