Traffic Safety News
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Driving in traffic can be a harrowing experience. With so many different types of drivers, it’s not always a guarantee that those around you will follow the rules of the road. .. Recent Article published on 11/30/2009 by DS_Melynd19952
- Toyota is "close to developing a repair" for the balky gas pedals behind the automaker's massive recall and sales halt for eight models, which was extended today to Europe and China, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. - Toyota is leaving some bread crumbs that help trace its path to the latest recall of 2.3 million vehicles to fix accelerator pedals that can stick and leave you behind the wheel of a runaway car. -       Toyota says it's still selling cars involved in Thursday's recall of 2.3 million vehicles with throttles that could stick open.        Toyota's U.S. safety spokesman John Hanson said Friday that new vehicles with the potentially faulty accelerator pedal assemblies should be risk-free for awhile because the problem is caused by wear. "It is something that happens over the use of the vehicle. Out of the box, the new vehicle works perfectly fine," he says. - Toyota and Lexus vehicles accounted for over 40% of complaints of sudden acceleration in 2008 models, a Consumer Reports analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration database has determined. - The government just released a proposal to require automakers to make it harder for passengers to be ejected through the side windows of cars in a crash. - Gas pedals will be reconfigured or replaced on 3.8 million Toyota and Lexus models recalled in late September because of runaway acceleration. The company initially blamed the problem on faulty floor mats. - When she headed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrationfrom 2006-08, Nicole Nason was in charge of both auto safety regulation and federal gas mileage standards. Safety advocates have long argued the two roles are in conflict and many studies have... - The safety group Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 works to get residential speed limits enforced and now is updating a blog on the site regularly to reflect news and events in all 50 states. Tom and Wendy Everson of Omaha,... - Beware of unofficial “cash for clunkers†websites, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration warns. “We’re seeing a lot of ‘cash for clunkers’ sites sprouting up around the WWW,†says NHTSA spokesman Eric Bolton. “Some want a lot of personal information,... - Most motorists in the USA, 78%, call aggressive driving a serious concern yet nearly half admit speeding on major highways in the past 30 days, according to a survey and analysis of research made public today by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
