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  • Drivers back stronger belt reminders; European systems could be model

    How to turn part-time belt users into full-time users is an issue that has dogged policymakers for many years. Even though belt use is at a record 86 percent, more than half of the people who die in passenger vehicle crashes each year are unbelted. Last year's passage of the federal highway reauthorization bill opens the door wider for technological solutions to the problem.

  • Delays litter long road to vehicle rearview rules

    In the private hell of a mother's grief, the sounds come back to Judy Neiman. The SUV door slamming. The slight bump as she backed up in the bank parking lot. The emergency room doctor's sobs as he said her 9-year-old daughter Sydnee, who previously had survived four open heart surgeries, would not make it this time.

  • Mother relives horrifying moment she killed her own daughter by backing up on her

    A Washington State woman who backed over and killed her 9-year-old daughter a year ago is lobbying the government to improve rear visibility in SUVs so other parents don't have to go through her pain.

  • Toyota to Repair 700,000 Lexus Trunk Releases, Consumer Reports Says

    Consumer Reports magazine says it expects Toyota in January to announce plans to repair about 700,000 Lexus automobiles because the emergency trunk release can break, trapping an occupant inside.

  • Kids And Car Safety earns Kansas award

    Safe Kids Kansas has presented its Outstanding Coalition Organization of 2012 award to Kids And Car Safety, the leading nonprofit child safety organization working to prevent injuries and deaths of children in and around motor vehicles, according to a recent press release.

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