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Expanding child restraint laws to cover children through ages 7 or 8 reduces crash injuries among booster - age kids, a new IIHS study finds.
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A helmet is the most important device available that can reduce head injury and death from a bicycle crash, according to Safe Kids USA.
The use of a foot prop on rear - facing car seats can help reduce those injuries by reducing the transfer of crash energy to the child.
Ten helmets tested by researchers reduced the likelihood of traumatic brain injury by an average of 20 percent compared with no helmet in a simulation using crash test dummies.
The ARB is located on the infant car seat base and minimizes the risk of injury by reducing rebound rotation by up to 30 percent in a crash.
Crash reports evaluate the ability of the child seat to reduce the injury risk in conditions that simulates a car's interior environment and the forces encountered during a crash.
Called Next Generation (Next Gen), the car seats offer 360 Degree Protection with Head Safety Technology - designed to reduce the risk of head injury and provides protection from all sides in the event of a vehicle crash.
Any time you can minimize the motion in a crash, though, the potential for injury is also reduced.
The studies have proved that children of ages 1 - 2 should be in a rear - facing position as long as possible because it will reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries in car crashes 5.3 times, which won't be the case with forward facing position.
Be sure to use the top tether: It will limit the motion of the car seat and your child's head in a crash and reduce the risk of injury.
Road - traffic safety aims to reduce the harm (deaths, injuries, and property damage) resulting from crashes of road vehicles traveling on public roads.
The Traffic Safety Program is funded by federal grants and is focused on reducing deaths, injuries, and costs associated with motor vehicle crashes.
Descriptions from the crash scene appear to confirm that the death and injury toll would have been significantly reduced if children were wearing seat belts.
«FMCSA is pleased to work with a group of partners that are dedicated to safety and share our agency's goal of reducing crashes, injuries and fatalities involving large trucks and buses on the road,» said FMCSA Deputy Administrator Daphne Jefferson.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is responsible for reducing deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes.
«These grants will help ensure that our state partners have the tools and resources they need to support FMCSA's mission of reducing crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.»
Within a year, it reduced injury - only crashes by 80 percent and all crashes by 53 percent.
FMCSA within the Department of Transportation (DOT) has been given the responsibility to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.
Finally, Pre-Safe Plus can detect an imminent rear - end collision and can prepare for it by cinching the seatbelt tensioners and firmly applying the brakes, reducing potential for whiplash injuries and secondary crashes.
The information from these and other studies are then used in officer traffic safety programs to help reduce crash fatalities and injuries.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), within the Department of Transportation (DOT), has been given the responsibility to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.
The agency requests $ 851 million to continue its mission to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards, and enforcement activity.
«Vehicle - to - vehicle technologies have the potential to significantly reduce fatalities and injuries in crashes and could one day help motorists avoid crashes altogether,» said David Strickland, NHTSA Administrator.
Cities should publicize traffic safety laws and behaviors; educate their communities about the consequences of violating laws aimed at reducing pedestrian and bicyclist injuries and fatalities; and conduct enforcement where they will be most effective based on local crash data.
The mission of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), an Operating Administration within the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses (motor coaches).
In carrying out its safety mandate to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses, FMCSA:
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), in cooperation with its partners and customers, strives to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.
Its primary mission is to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.
Larry Kwiecinski, engineering group manager for the GM Global Safety Center, noted, «In our vehicles without knee airbags, the vehicle structure, the seat belts and the instrument panel are all designed to help absorb crash energy and reduce lower - leg injuries, as well.
This NPRM proposes rulemaking on these and other requirements to increase the correct use of child restraint anchorage systems and tether anchorages, and the correct use of child restraints, with the ultimate goal of reducing injuries to restrained children in motor vehicle crashes.
Announced plans to update its 5 - Star Safety Ratings program and encourage automakers to produce cars with better crash protection and new crash avoidance technologies to save more lives and reduce passenger and pedestrian injuries.
Methods that are currently being implemented in the United States are included in the guide to empower work zone safety practitioners to effectively reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities.
Proper restraint use can reduce crash deaths and injuries even more.
The goal of our crash test program is to encourage these kinds of improvements to reduce injury risk in real - world crashes.»
This isn't the first time the Institute has tested a BMW with head protection airbags (see «Airbags for heads reduce injuries in side impact crashes,» Dec. 27, 1997).
The new BMW 1 Series Convertible also comes with crash - optimized seats with specially padded headrests and backrests designed to reduce the risk of injury in an impact from the rear.
Auto manufacturers are cooperating to reduce vehicle incompatibilities in both side and front collisions that lead to occupant injuries in struck cars (see Status Report special issue: vehicle incompatibility in crashes, April 28, 2005).
As you can see in the graph, the technology reduced rear - end crashes with injuries by more than 40 %.
The Smart mostly lacks a front - end crush zone, which is a key component in reducing injury risk in serious frontal crashes.
The Avalon's high - strength body works to disperse crash energy away from the occupants, while the Whiplash - Injury - Lessening seats have been engineered to yield in a controlled manner in order to reduce the risk of a neck injury in the event of a collision.
Police crash data from 25 states between 2009 and 2015 for vehicle models where the systems were sold as optional reduced rates of single - vehicle, sideswipe and head - on crashes by 11 percent, and injuries in such crashes by 21 percent.
The autobrake systems also greatly reduce rear - end crashes involving injury.
In 2006, Swedish research showed that ESC reduced crashes with personal injuries, especially serious and fatal injuries.
Pre-acceleration and force limitation allow the occupants to be temporarily isolated from the effects of the crash, significantly reducing the risk and severity of injuries in a frontal collision.
A similar speed reduction in a higher speed crash would significantly reduce injury risk, as well as vehicle damage.
The buckles are bigger and the belts heavier than usual, but Ford reckons they reduce chest, head and neck injuries in the event of a crash.
It reduces rear - end crashes by 40 % and also reduces whiplash injuries, the most common type of injuries in vehicles.
The question addressed in the Institute's new research is whether these redesigned seats and head restraints are doing a better job of reducing neck injuries in real - world crashes, compared with older designs.
Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute have estimated that collision mitigation braking could reduce fatalities in rear - end crashes by 44 percent and injuries by 47 percent if all tractor - semitrailers were equipped with the technology.
Conequence: IN THE EVENT OF A CRASH, THE SIDE AIRBAG MAY NOT DEPLOY, REDUCING THE PROTECTION INTENDED FOR THE OCCUPANT AND INCREASING THE RISK OF INJURIES.