The number of road traffic deaths in China has soared almost 100% in two decades, reveals a study published in the journal Injury Prevention.

A new study by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University finds that people with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) experienced more accidents and performed more poorly on road tests compared to drivers without cognitive impairment. The study is published in the January 23 edition of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

At least 36 workers were killed and dozens injured when a bridge collapsed in Vietnam's southern city of Can Tho, online news portal VnExpress reported. The cable-stayed bridge across the river Hau had been under construction since 2004, and was scheduled for completion this year.

An International Automobile Federation survey says that after years of decline, road deaths are suddenly rising in Europe threatening the goal of halving annual traffic fatalities in the European Union by 2010.

Authorities lowered the death toll from an interstate bridge collapse to four Thursday, but warned the final number could change as divers search the Mississippi River.

A sad news from Minneapolis: a four-lane highway bridge has collapsed into the Mississippi River during the evening rush hour in the midwestern U.S. city of Minneapolis. A hospital official says at least one person was killed and 28 injured.

Learner drivers are being invited to test how good — or bad — they are at spotting potential hazards on road, with the help of University of Nottingham researchers.

Drivers 65 and older are just one-third as likely as drivers 15 to 24 to cause auto accidents, and not much more likely than drivers 25 to 64 to cause accidents, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.

Former Redskins Linebacker LaVar Arrington was seriously hurt in a motorcycle accident early Monday afternoon.

The new study, by The George Institute for International Health, was designed to determine the risk of a crash associated with passenger carriage compared with that of using a mobile phone while driving. Both the carrying of passengers, and having a larger number of passengers in the car, are associated with an increased likelihood of a crash, though not to the same extent as mobile phone use.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a spate of emergency for a San Francisco suburb after a tanker truck crash and explosion collpased a highway overpass.

Young people attending the First U.N. Global Road Safety Week say road accidents can be greatly reduced if young people are involved and given a voice in decision-making. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA that about 400 young people from 100 countries are attending the first ever World Youth Assembly in Geneva to explore road safety measures.