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Last Updated: Nov 25th, 2007 - 10:09:00 |
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
DOT Proposes Anti-Rollover Technology for New Vehicles
A new proposal to require auto manufacturers to install electronic stability control (ESC) as a standard feature on all new passenger vehicles has the potential to save more than 10,000 lives every year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced today.
Sep 15, 2006, 06:23
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
New side crash tests: performance of two Fords improves with side airbags
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently tested four 2007 model vehicles with side airbags: Toyota FJ Cruiser and Ford Freestyle (midsize SUVs); Ford Fusion (midsize moderately priced car) and Ford Crown Victoria (large family car). The FJ Cruiser and Freestyle earn good ratings for protection in side crashes. The Fusion is rated acceptable, and the Crown Victoria is marginal. Side airbags are optional in the FJ Cruiser and Crown Victoria. The Fusion has been upgraded to standard side airbags for the 2007 model year. The Freestyle will have standard side airbags in 2007s built after September.
Sep 14, 2006, 06:01
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
New “Stars on Cars” Rule Announced Today Will Help Help
Manufacturers will display the government's star safety ratings on every new vehicle with a price sticker, according to a federal rule made final today in Washington, DC. The rule announced by National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator Nicole Nason and Ohio Senator Mike DeWine, provides for an expanded window sticker meant to provide consumers with safety rating information about new vehicles.
Sep 7, 2006, 19:30
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Rise in Motorcycle and Pedestrian Deaths Led to Increase in Overall Highway Fatality Rate in 2005
An increase in motorcycle and pedestrian deaths contributed to an overall rise in highway fatalities in 2005, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced today. The total number of fatalities rose 1.4 percent from 42,836 in 2004 to 43,443 in 2005 while the rate of fatalities was 1.47 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT), up from 1.45 in 2004.
Aug 22, 2006, 15:03
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
New DOT Rule Requires Automakers to Tell Consumers if New Vehicles Are Equipped with Event Data Recorders (EDR)
Automakers will be required, for the first time ever, to tell new car buyers if an Event Data Recorder (EDR) has been installed under a new rule issued today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Aug 21, 2006, 07:46
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
U.S. DOT Releases 2005 Data on Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities;
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today released new state-by-state and national data for 2005 showing that alcohol-impaired driving remains an extremely severe problem. Last year alone, there were 16,885 alcohol-related fatalities in traffic crashes, a figure nearly unchanged during the last decade.
Aug 17, 2006, 06:24
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Declining death rates due to safer vehicles, not better drivers or improved roadways
The designs of passenger vehicles have been improving for years, becoming more protective of their occupants in crashes. Without these improvements, the motor vehicle death rate per registered vehicle would have stopped declining in 1994 and started going up. This is the main finding of a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Aug 10, 2006, 07:14
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
DOT, British Airways Reach Settlement Over Treatment of Passengers with Disabilities
British Airways is being assessed a $50,000 fine for denying transportation to four passengers with mobility-related disabilities on flights leaving the United States under a settlement announced today by Acting Secretary of Transportation Maria Cino
Aug 8, 2006, 07:26
