Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 4, August / September 2000 SANTEE, CALIFORNIA—A horrific sudden unintended acceleration crash that killed four – including a California Highway Patrol officer who was at the wheel of the 2009 Lexus when it plunged over an embankment and burst into flames – may raise the profile of [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 4, August / September 2000 CROWNSVILLE, MD – A new analysis of Early Warning Data by statisticians Randy and Alice Whitfield, of Quality Control Systems Corporation, appears to show that the system is functioning more like an identifier of failed recalls than a spotter of developing trends.

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 4, August / September 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has passed a strict new braking rule for heavy trucks designed to significantly reduce fatalities, injuries and property damage by reducing their stopping distances by 30 percent.

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 4, August / September 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Only power windows with express-up designs would have to be equipped with an auto-reverse feature, and all vehicles will have to install a brake to shift interlock, under two notices of proposed rulemaking published in the last month.

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 4, August / September 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Can you say rolling recall? The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants to know why Honda recently expanded from 4,000 to 440,000 a safety campaign for defective airbag inflators that began last November.

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 4, August / September 2000 Los Angeles, CA – Attorneys nationwide are taking a second look at their past Toyota cases in light of the explosive allegations leveled by former Toyota corporate counsel Dimitrios P. Biller, who has accused the automaker of hiding and destroying evidence in [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 4, August / September 2009 REHOBOTH, MA – As Enterprise Rent-A-Car and General Motors scramble to correct the false advertising that claimed former fleet vehicles being sold used were equipped with “standard” side curtain airbags, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has agreed to correct the information [...]