Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 8, Issue 3, November 2011 A new study shows that many parents know that adult seat belts do not fit their older children properly, but use them anyway. Researchers from the University of Michigan’s Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit and its Transportation Research Institute set out to determine [...]

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 2, June 2010 Spanish Researchers Find Unrestrained Objects Cause Head Injuries Researchers from the University of Navarra have concluded that improper use of a vehicle’s head/neck rest can place occupants at risk for head injuries from unsecured objects. The researchers determined that occupants typically place the head [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 2, March/April 2009 Juries in Georgia, Colorado and Texas recently delivered verdicts worth more than $46 million against Ford Motor Company and Nissan in three different defect cases. Ford lost in two separate cases involving an Explorer transmission defect and a seat-belt unlatch incident involving a Mercury [...]