On March 27, 2025, Newsday kicked off its Dangerous Roads series with the story of Amir Porterfield, a 15-year-old Copiague boy who died after being struck by two vehicles while walking home from a ...

America’s roads have never felt more perilous — and the numbers back that anxiety. Traffic deaths surged during and after the pandemic and have remained stubbornly high, even as vehicle technology and ...