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Last Updated: Apr 17, 2008

Snowstorm, multi-car pileup hit Plains - Dec 22, 2007
Auto Safety & Security
A strong snowstorm that cut visibility nearly to zero in some places as it rolled across the Plains on Saturday caused numerous vehicle pileups.... Read More..

Reducing blind zones in big cars among bill's aims - Dec 20, 2007
Auto Safety & Security
The government would be required to examine a number of auto safety problems such as backovers and other deadly accidents involving children.... Read More..

EU wants safer brake systems in cars to reduce pedestrian deaths - Oct 16, 2007
Auto Safety & Security
The European Commission proposed that all new cars be fitted with an advanced braking system that can detect an emergency and shrink reaction times.... Read More..

German Chancellor Merkel backs EU automakers on CO2 issue - Sep 13, 2007
Auto Safety & Security
German Chancellor backed her nation's automakers in a European debate over how to reduce greenhouse emissions as she opened the world's largest motor show.... Read More..

U.S., China reach auto safety agreement - Sep 13, 2007
Auto Safety & Security
The government signed an agreement with China that will improve information sharing on auto safety following last summer's recall of thousands of defective tires.... Read More..

Side air bag rule in works - Aug 27, 2007
Auto Safety & Security
Federal officials next month will finally unveil one of the last major auto safety regulations in the works -- a requirement that automakers install side air bags.... Read More..

7 dead as Mississippi River bridge falls - Aug 1, 2007
Auto Safety & Security
At least seven people were killed when an interstate bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed Wednesday evening, in what the governor called a "catastrophe of historic proportions."... Read More..

Next-generation Vauxhalls will talk to each other - Jul 14, 2007
Auto Safety & Security
Vauxhall's new Calibra will have the very latest technology which is set to make the company's models some of the safest in the world.... Read More..

Chinese tires recalled - Jun 26, 2007
Auto Safety & Security
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has ordered a recall of 450,000 light truck tires that could have an increased risk of tread separation.... Read More..

Volvo C70 gets top result in recent crash test - May 31, 2007
Volvo
The Volvo C70 earned the US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's (IIHS) Top Safety Pick award for superior crash protection in the first tests ever the IIHS has conducted of 10 midsize convertible models.... Read More..
Feds push back roof regulation - May 31, 2007
Auto Safety & Security
In yet another delay involving one of the nation's most pressing vehicle safety issues, federal regulators are going back to the drawing board to craft a regulation to require automakers to increase the strength of roofs to protect passengers in rollovers.... Read More..
Push on for new child car seats regulations - May 19, 2007
Auto Safety & Security
Angie Rinock cringes when she sees a family tooling down a highway with a small child in the back seat wearing only a seat belt.... Read More..

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