Possible Recall-Related Crashes Involving Vehicles 10 Years and Older Going Unreported May 4, 2015 By Jeff Green and Margaret Cronin Fisk Hundreds of crashes involving defective cars are going unreported each year because under U.S. safety rules automakers aren’t required to...
Federal Agency Wants to Cap Big Rig Speeds to Fix Tire Issue April 14, 2015 By MEGHAN BARR and TOM KRISHER The nation’s highway safety chief says his agency will push for quick action on a regulation requiring electronic speed limiters...
Federal Regulator Warns of Rust on Brakes in Cold Weather States April 9, 2015 By Bernie Woodall U.S. safety regulators on Thursday warned millions of owners of older model vehicles in “Rust Belt” states to get their...
Highway Agency Probe Sought in Connection With Guardrail Safety March 4, 2015 By Patrick G. Lee Six U.S. senators asked for an investigation of the Federal Highway Administration’s monitoring of roadside safety devices, including a common...
Close to 64M Vehicles Recalled in 2014 February 17, 2015 By TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN For the U.S. auto industry, 2014 was the year of the recall. Automakers issued 803 recalls totaling almost 64 million...
Drugged Driving Increases as Drunk Driving Declines February 9, 2015 The nation’s decades-long campaign to combat drunk driving continues to make our roads safer, but use of marijuana and prescription...
NHTSA Will Add Automatic Braking to Consumer Star Rating System January 26, 2015 By Jeff Plungis U.S. regulators will add automatic braking to a list of technologies considered as beneficial to safety in its influential star-rating...
Safety Agency Investigates Stalling Problem in Ford Trucks January 20, 2015 Federal regulators are investigating whether Ford Motor Co. should expand a 2013 safety recall of diesel trucks. The previous recall...
Safety Agency Closes Mercedes Fuel Leak Probe December 24, 2014 U.S. safety officials have ended their nearly three-year investigation into more than 280,000 Mercedes-Benz E-Class cars, after they found that...
Traffic Deaths Fell 3% Nationwide in 2013 December 23, 2014 The number of traffic deaths nationwide dropped just over 3 percent last year, and the rate of deaths per 100...