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 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 6, Issue 2, March/April 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tire retailers are in the midst of an oh-my-gosh-the-sky-is-falling meltdown over a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tire maintenance public education program. Specifically, the retail arm of the tire industry is quivering over the possibility that groups outside of the industry [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 2, March/April 2009 SACRAMENTO, CA – One of the nation’s first laws to require tire dealers to disclose the age of each tire prior to sale or installation cleared an important hurdle in late April, when the California state legislature’s Assembly Business and Professions committee passed it [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Vol. 5, Issue 2, March / April 2008 SAN DIEGO, CA — On June 19, 2003, a Goodyear claims administrator allegedly made an admission so rare and startling that the tiremaker’s counsel immediately terminated the deposition, negotiated a settlement and arranged for every scrap of the deposition’s existence to be [...]