Emma Burke Newman (in memoriam)

Emma's crash happened at a bridge intersection--a known traffic hotspot.  How can we make intersections safer to navigate for everyone?  In the memory of Emma, the architecture firm where she worked in Glasgow launched a project called " Waiting to Happen ." It includes the junction where Emma's fatal crash took place, hoping to shed light on the dangers. Thank you New Practice as we grieve together. Please read about the project and participate in the survey! The idiom is "accident waiting to happen." But in the world of road fatalities and injuries, there are no accidents . The word accident brushes off an event without explanation. In this milieu, experts prefer talking about incidents, crashes, and collisions. We hope you will adopt this change in language too. The clever name of the initiative, Waiting to Happen, also plays on the fact that people have to live with what seem to be dangerous intersections and roads while "waiting" for infrastru...