With U.S. results slipping, next week's Governors Highway Safety Association Meeting will hear how Canada, Australia, and The Netherlands are solving traffic safety problems.
The "supersport" motorcycles are extremely popular, with registrations up 83 percent in 2005 from 2000. Their drivers have a worrisome death rate.
Seventeen Mexican companies will be admitted immediately and up to 100 can participate in this year-long demonstration project.
The Federal Railroad Authority is adjusting the penalty for inflation, taking it from $11,000 to $16,000. Other penalties are unchanged.
Occupant areas more than 24 inches behind the driver's position are already exempt; NHTSA's final rule is halving that distance to 12 inches for motor homes and ambulances.
Auto manufacturers are giving motorists with 2008 cars help in using the new safety systems in their vehicles.
2006 fatality date showed progress in most areas, but not motorcycling deaths, which continue to rise.
I applaud the Federal Aviation Administration's FAA Safety Team (a/k/a the FAASTeam), which was rolled out Oct. 1, because it represents out-of-the-box thinking. Ask yourself this: When was the last time I spoke the words "safety" and "out of the box" in the same sentence? Too often, our industry watches the same trailing indicators, recycles old approaches, and spurns new technologies. Yet we insist we want better results.
IN the United States, the leading cause of death and debilitating injury to children over the age of one is motor vehicle accidents. Impelled by this bleak statistic, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia® and State Farm® Mutual Automobile Insurance Companies formed Partners for Child Passenger Safety (PCPS) in 1997 as a program of the Hospital's Center for Injury Research and Prevention.
SAFETY managers are leaving no stone unturned when it comes to security, which is why more and more decision-makers are taking another look at the loading dock.
WHEN it comes to distractions, today's car and truck drivers can select any number of ways to focus on anything except the road. All of us know that jabbering on a cell phone or reading the newspaper while flying down the expressway during rush hour is probably not a good idea.
DR. Jeffrey W. Runge of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration--the nation's top auto-safety regulator--suggests that if 90 percent of Americans wore seat belts, then 6,600 lives would be saved each year, and that the failure to wear seat belts costs society more than $26 billion annually (The Wall Street Journal, 2003).