The 63,000 spectators crowded in late January inside Atlanta’s Georgia Dome for a battle of college marching bands didn’t know they’d also be schooled in auto safety. Between the Lincoln University Orange Crush Roaring Lions and the Bethune Cookman Marching Wildcats, …
Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling about 2.87 million sport utility vehicles worldwide after rear seatbelts separated in one fatal accident in Canada and during a crash that injured a passenger in the U.S. The automaker has been unable to confirm …
Federal regulators and the auto industry are taking a more lenient approach than safety advocates like when it comes to phasing in automatic braking systems for passenger cars, according to records of their private negotiations. The technology automatically applies brakes …
An auto safety advocate is calling on the government to reopen an investigation of rear-crash fires in older Jeep SUVs after finding at least 11 more deaths since the vehicles were recalled. The deaths show that the recall repair – …
Nearly one in five vehicles on U.S. roads is in need of repair of a safety issue serious enough to be involved in a federal government recall, according to used-car history provider Carfax. There are more than 47 million cars …
Ford is recalling nearly 391,000 Ranger pickups because the driver’s airbag inflators can explode with too much force and cause injuries. The recall covers trucks from the 2004 through 2006 model years in the U.S. and Canada. It comes just …
A Ford pickup driver killed last month in South Carolina is the 9th person to die in the U.S. and the 10th worldwide because of defective Takata airbag inflators that explode, firing off shrapnel-like shards, government safety officials said Friday, …
Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG had the most models rated among the safest U.S. vehicles in a year-end review by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Toyota led the industry with nine models on the institute’s list, …
The U.S. Transportation Department will today propose a remake of its influential crash-test ratings system to incorporate new technology designed to avoid collisions. Regulators will add a crash-avoidance element to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s star ratings system as …
A sweeping transportation bill approved by the House on Thursday would put a new emphasis on freight corridors when designating highway funds and includes provisions sought by both industry and safety advocates to address auto, truck, bus, and railroad safety. …