Road safety, explained.
People on foot are hardest to see right now. Arizona's numbers show why it matters.
Most pedestrian deaths happen after dark, and Arizona has one of the highest pedestrian fatality rates in the U.S. What drivers and walkers can do this season.
Read →Legal doesn't mean safe to drive: cannabis, medications, and impairment
Cannabis is legal for adults in Arizona and many medicines are sold over the counter. Driving impaired by either is still illegal and still dangerous.
Read →Arizona's DUI laws, explained before the holiday season
Arizona has three tiers of alcohol DUI, mandatory jail, and ignition interlock requirements. A plain-language overview of the basics before the holidays.
Read →The evening commute is now a night drive. What that means in Arizona.
Phoenix sunsets now come before 5:30 p.m. ADOT crash data shows why darker evening drives deserve extra care, and what drivers can do about it.
Read →Drowsy driving is undercounted. Plan your holiday drives like it matters.
Research suggests drowsy driving kills far more people than police reports show. How Arizona travelers can plan rest into long holiday drives.
Read →Planning holiday road trips with wrong-way risk in mind
Holiday travel season is coming. How Arizona families can plan safer road trips, avoid late-night driving, and know what to do about a wrong-way driver.
Read →Clocks fall back Nov. 1, except in most of Arizona. Here's why drivers should care.
Daylight saving time ends Nov. 1, but most of Arizona doesn't change clocks. What that means for visitors, travelers, and night driving safety.
Read →Halloween falls on a Saturday this year. Plan the drive home now.
Halloween night brings parties, trick-or-treaters, and impaired drivers to Arizona roads. How to plan a safe ride home and avoid wrong-way driving risks.
Read →Beyond the Valley: wrong-way risk on rural Arizona highways
Rural highways carry higher wrong-way driving risk. What Arizona drivers heading north or out of town this fall should know before a long night drive.
Read →How Arizona businesses can help keep our streets safe
Ways Arizona businesses can sponsor road safety and wrong-way driving prevention, from employee education to event support and community partnerships.
Read →The most effective wrong-way countermeasure might be a ride home
Most wrong-way crashes involve impaired drivers. Rideshare, designated drivers, and a plan made early are some of the best prevention available.
Read →What happens after a wrong-way driver is reported
How Arizona detection systems, 911 dispatch, and DPS troopers respond to a wrong-way driver report, and how your call helps first responders act fast.
Read →What to tell a new driver about wrong-way crashes
A parent's guide to talking with teen drivers about wrong-way crashes, warning signs, night driving, and what to do if they ever face one.
Read →If you realize you're the one going the wrong way
What to do if you realize you are driving the wrong way on a ramp or highway, and the early warning signs that help you catch the mistake in time.
Read →Game nights and the drive home: football season and wrong-way risk
Football season means late nights and crowded roads in Arizona. A game-day plan helps avoid impaired and wrong-way driving on the trip home.
Read →Red reflectors, WRONG WAY signs, and arrows: how the road tells you to stop
A plain guide to wrong-way signs, red reflectors, and pavement arrows on Arizona ramps, and what each one means for a driver who sees it.
Read →Visitor season is here: sharing Phoenix freeways with drivers who don't know them
Fall and winter bring visitors and snowbirds to Phoenix freeways. Here's how locals and newcomers can lower wrong-way driver risk in Arizona this season.
Read →How to support wrong-way prevention where you live
Most of this work happens at the state and municipal level, which means an individual can have more influence than you'd expect.
Read →Talking with a parent about night driving
One of the hardest conversations families have. Here's an approach that tends to work better than the one most people try first.
Read →What a wrong-way alert app can and can't do
In-vehicle warning fills a real gap in roadside infrastructure. It also has honest limits, and we'd rather state them than oversell.
Read →Why unfamiliar roads raise wrong-way risk
Drivers far from home are overrepresented in these crashes. The implication is that interchanges have to be readable by people who have never seen them.
Read →Night, dawn, and dusk: when wrong-way crashes happen
These crashes cluster hard in specific conditions. That clustering is the reason focused prevention works.
Read →Older drivers and wrong-way risk
Older drivers are overrepresented in fatal wrong-way crashes. The reasons are specific and mostly addressable — and the conversation deserves more care than it usually gets.
Read →The off-ramp problem: where wrong-way entries actually begin
Almost every wrong-way trip starts at one identifiable point. That's the strongest argument for engineering solutions over awareness alone.
Read →What to do if you see a wrong-way driver
The right actions take seconds and are worth knowing before you need them. Read this once and it may be there when it counts.
Read →Impairment and wrong-way driving
Alcohol-impaired drivers are consistently overrepresented in fatal wrong-way crashes. Understanding why points directly at what prevention has to accomplish.
Read →How Arizona's wrong-way detection system actually works
ADOT built one of the country's first large thermal-camera wrong-way detection systems on I-17. Here's what it does and what it has found.
Read →Why wrong-way crashes are so much deadlier than other crashes
It isn't bad luck. It's physics, geometry, and reaction time working together in the worst possible combination.
Read →Wrong-way crashes are rising. Here's what the data shows.
Fatal wrong-way crashes on U.S. divided highways roughly doubled between 2014 and 2023. The numbers are small, the trend is not, and the pattern points at prevention.
Read →Help us prevent the next wrong-way crash.
Wrong-way crashes are rare, preventable, and disproportionately deadly. Your support funds the technology and awareness work that stops them.
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