The Department of Public Safety’s Crash Analysis Tool breaks down accidents by county. As we’d expect, where there are more people, there are more crashes:…
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Speaking of car wrecks, the Department of Public Safety offers hours of clickable fun with its online Crash Analysis Tool (SDCAT! how can you not…
The bad news is that South Dakota saw an 11% jump in traffic fatalities in 2017. The good news is compared to history and other…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) hasn’t attacked science yet this Session, but he’s starting a gun fight. His Senate Bill 87 starts out as a simple clarification…
The League of American Bicyclists has issued its 2017 report on bicycle-friendly states, and South Dakota doesn’t totally stink! We rank 33rd, up from 39th…
My family calls them the traffic circus. Traffic circles, or roundabouts, are coming to more South Dakota roads. Reporting on a presentation made by Department…
Guns don’t kill people; people kill people. But watch out: guns do wound careless hunters in the foot: At approximately 10 a.m. Saturday, a 32-year-old South…
Cows get loose on the Interstate, cars crash, man dies, girl goes to hospital—it happens: [Robert] DeBoer says his cattle followed the road around a bend,…
Today’s juxtaposition of South Dakota “pro-life” attitudes: In Brown County, following an incident in which a man brought a garden shovel into the courthouse and…
The National Safety Council gives South Dakota and ten other states an F for its efforts to reduce preventable deaths from accidents. We rank #46…