Sentences with phrase «rollover crashes reduce»

Side airbags that deploy in rollover crashes reduce deaths of front seat occupants by 41 percent in rollovers, a NHTSA study shows.

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Performance requirements would ensure a sufficient level of survival space and reduce the risk of ejection in rollover crashes

According to NHTSA research, wearing lap - shoulder belts on motorcoaches could reduce the risk of passengers being killed in a rollover crash by 77 percent.

The rulemaking proceeding initiated under subsection (a) shall establish standards to reduce the occurrence of rollovers and loss of control crashes consistent with stability enhancing technologies, such as electronic stability control systems.

StabiliTrak electronic stability control system helps reduce the risk of rollover crashes by keeping the vehicle in the driver's intended path by applying throttle, braking or a combination of both.

Fatal single - vehicle rollover crashes are reduced even more — 70 percent for cars and 88 percent for the other vehicles.

Electronic stability control is significantly reducing rollovers, especially fatal single - vehicle ones (see «ESC reduces multiple - vehicle crashes as well as single - vehicle ones,» June 13, 2006).

ESC is meant to reduce the number of deaths and injuries resulting from crashes in which the driver loses directional control of the vehicle, including those resulting in vehicle rollover.

Mercedes - Benz F200 Imagination introduced the window airbag which inflates across the side walls and considerably reduces the risk of head injuries in side crashes and rollovers.

Electronic stability control could prevent nearly one - third of all fatal crashes and reduce rollover risk by as much as 80 %; effect is found on single - and multiple - vehicle crashes

Section 32703 (b)(3) of the Act states that, not later than two years after the date of enactment of the Act, the Secretary shall consider requiring motorcoaches to be equipped with stability enhancing technology, such as electronic stability control and torque vectoring, to reduce the number and frequency of rollover crashes of motorcoaches.

To reduce the frequency of rollover crashes, drivers should be diligent about steering technique and not overcorrect steering in a panicked attempt to avoid an object in the roadway such as an animal that suddenly appears or a patch of snow or ice on the road or highway.