Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 7, Issue 3, November 2010 This summer, a British coroner made headlines when he determined that the death of a passenger in a rollover crash would have been averted if the vehicle’s tires hadn’t been 13 years old. Nazma Shaheen, a mother of two, died in May 2009, after [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 7, Issue 3, November 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an unusual move, Ford Motor Company announced that it would buy back some older model Windstars with failed rear axles. That leaves one Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) probe into corrosion complaints for the minivan closed and one to go.

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 7, Issue 3, November 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. – ABS brakes have been around since 1929; they were applied to automobiles in the early 1970s; today they are standard on many new vehicles and serve as the basis for electronic stability control systems. That they are effective is a matter [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 7, Issue 3, November 2010 Survival Lessons Don’t wait. That’s the conclusion of researchers from the University of Manitoba’s Laboratory for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, who studied the most effective escapes from sinking vehicles. About 400 individuals in North America die in submersed vehicles each year, producing one of [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 7, Issue 3, November 2010 BOSTON, MASS – In September, Massachusetts passed the toughest ATV law in the nation, becoming the first state to ban All-Terrain Vehicle use for children 14 years and younger. In October, researchers for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health announced the results [...]