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Certified Dangerous: Used Cars' Airbags
An investigation of 1650 consumer complaints about the failure of airbags to deploy during car accidents such as head-on collisions, rollovers and broadside crashes. Some airbags are not replaced when the vehicle is being fixed after an accident, leaving the driver more succeptible to injury.
Tags: airbag; safety; t-bone; traffic; ford; gm; honda; kia; mitsubishi; nissan; volkswagen; auto accidents
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Lethal Protection
The military didn't take into account how Humvees would be affected by fitting them with heavy armor for war. The armor causes the vehicles to roll over much more easily and makes them more difficult to control on the harsh Iraq terrain. Seventy per cent of the deaths involved with Humvee accidents occured because of the vehicle rolling over.
Tags: rollover; army; automobile; accident; heavy armor; plating; Iraq
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Danger overhead: Crushed roofs
This investigation found that Detroit's Big Three automakers have fought costly upgrades to a 33-year-old roof strength standard despite the estimated 7,000 people killed each year in rollovers in which the roof was crushed. Automotive engineers are aware that strong roofs save lives, and the company's own European operations build and test stronger roofs, yet the Big Three continue to fight attempts to require stronger minimum standards in the United States.
Tags: autos; cars; automobile safety; rollovers; Big Three; automakers; SUVs; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; NHTSA
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Sticky Subject. Industry finds devil in the details of plan for border SUV labels. New warnings highlighting risk of rollovers inspire exercise in deconstruction. The fate of the dangling man.
This article talks about SUV rollovers, and the increasing number of rollovers that are happening. The federal government is considering requiring SUV manufacturers to place labels on the vehicles which warn of the "high risk of rollover."
Tags: SUV; Sport Utility Vehicles; SUVs; government; labels; rollover; seat belts; federal government; driver safety; roads; highways; speeding; traffic
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Rollover
From the contest entry summary: "60 Minutes II investigated a popular American vehicle, the 15-passenger van, that transports students, day care children, scout troops, church groups and hotel guests throughout the country." The story reveals that the van is one of the most dangerous vehicles on the road because of design flaws; that the more people on board, the more unstable it becomes; and that 425 people have been killed in passenger van accidents since 1990.
Tags: safety; transportation; highways; Ford; center of gravity; fatal accidents; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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High and Mighty SUVs: The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way
According to the contest questionnaire, "SUVs have taken over America's roads. Ad campaigns promote the vehicles as safer and "greener" than ordinary cars and easier to handle in bad weather. However, in actuality, the gas-guzzling SUVs poorly protect occupants during crashes and inflict horrific damage to other cars." PublicAffairsreports on the safety and the environmental record of SUVs--including the Ford-Firestone rollover controversy.
Tags: BOOK; SUVs; Ford; Firestone; National Highway Safety Administration; EPA; safety records; auto industry; Bradsher Bar; SUV manufacturers; BOOK PAGES-468
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Further Problems of Safety Found For Light Trucks, Documents on Design of Explorer Reveal a Series of Compromises
Half of all cars purchased in the U.S. are in the light truck category, which include SUVs. "Ford designed its Explorer on a shoestring budget in the late 1980's, bolting a roomy car-like passenger cabin on top of the underbody of a Ranger pickup truck. The high-riding design made the vehicle more prone to rolling over... Sport utility vehicles, which many American busy partly because they seem safer than cars in collisions between the two, roll over so often that their occupants are just as likely to die in an accident as car occupants..."
Tags: Ford; SUV; sport utility vehicle; rollover rate; tire; Firestone; auto safety; consumer image; SUV drivers; mass production; design changes and flaws; payload; rear suspension; frame rails; track width; sides and roof alterations
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Roll Over Newton
A Discover investigation reveals that SUVs are less safe than passenger cars, according to road safety statistics. The story examines rollovers as a leading cause of auto=related deaths, and finds that "SUVs are three times as likely to roll over as other cars." The analysis focuses on the connection between the center of gravity and stability of cars. The report finds that "simple physics works against SUV owners."
Tags: safety; trucks; auto manufacturers; tires; Ford; NHTSA
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Rollover
Dateline investigated "one of this year's most controversial auto safety issues, revealing vital new information about the risk of deadly rollover accidents in sport utility vehicles. By researching historical records and personal accounts of auto industry insiders, Dateline documented that auto experts had serious concerns decades ago about the high risk of SUV rollovers."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; automobiles; sport utility vehicles; SUV; rollovers; safety; CAR; FARS
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Roll Over
The American Lawyer investigates a case filed by Suzuki Motor Corporation Japan v. Consumers Union of U.S., Inc. Consumer Reports, the publication of Consumers Union, rated the Suzuki Samurai unsafe in July 1988. Now, eight years after the article ran, Suzuki is filing a lawsuit against the publication, blaming its rollover suits on Consumer Reports.
Tags: Parloff; Consumer Reports; Suzuki Motor Corporation; Consumers Union