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The head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the Obama administration will unveil a change in its five-star New Car Assessment Program on Thursday that awards cars and trucks up to five stars in crash tests. NHTSA may be announcing that it will include on new vehicle stickers whether vehicles have automatic braking […]
Congress is barring the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from conducting a research program on whether drivers are using drugs and alcohol behind the wheel in the face of criticism from some members of Congress.
As a brand new school year begins, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reminds parents, students and motorists to be alert and to put safety first in school zones and near school bus stops. According to NHTSA data, over the past 10 years, 44 school-aged children and teens between the […]
Driver license status in fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes was examined in association with other variables in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). There is a variety of reasons why a driver might have an invalid license, which raises a very important caveat regarding the data. The reason for the lack of a valid license is not collected in the […]
Backup cameras have become ubiquitous on all varieties of cars– from the most affordable subcompacts to the priciest of exotics– but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration just issued a long-awaited ruling that will make the technology legally required on every sub-10,000 pound vehicle by May of 2018. “Safety is our highest priority,” U.S. Department […]
Seat belt use in 2013 reached 87 percent, statistically unchanged from 86 percent in 2012. This result is from the National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS), which is the only survey that provides nationwide probability-based observed data on seat belt use in the United States. The NOPUS is conducted annually by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis of the National […]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), responding to a request by the Law Enforcement and Traffic Safety Division (the “highway safety office” or HSO) of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA), assembled a team to conduct a traffic records assessment. Concurrently the HSO carried out the necessary logistical and administrative steps […]