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Don't Perambulate If You Inebriate (A Cautionary Tale) [Public Service Announcements]In a service-y post at Tara Parker-Pope's New York Times blog, she notes that New Years Day (the early part) is the most fatal day of the yearfor pedestrians, many of whom are drunk. In fact, regardless of the day, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reports that 54 percent of all pedestri... |
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Older Drivers Involved in Fewer Fatal CrashesDrivers over 70 years of age have bucked conventional wisdom in recent years by lowering the number of fatal crashes they were involved in. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the years 1997-2006 saw a 21% decline in fatal accidents for that age group, completely reversing wh... |
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SX4, Matrix score Good on IIHS tests, PT Cruiser... not so muchFiled under: Economy, Safety, Chevrolet, Chrysler, LLC., Ford, Hyundai, MINI, Saturn, Suzuki, Toyota Click above for a gallery of high-res IIHS crash carnage Recent testing indicates that new cars are safe, regardless of their relative size. No surprise, then, that most of the latest 2009 model... |
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CARNIVAL OF CARS: A Drive Around the Auto Blog Block for Saturday, December 13, 2008Are we bailed out yet? Edward Niedermeyer at The Truth About Cars assesses the smoking rubble following the explosion of sanity in the U.S.Senate late Thursday evening. It's all up to W now.And Peter DeLornezo at AUTOEXTREMIST makes the case for throwing a TARP on Detroit. So let's say just for... |
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Top 10 Least Stolen Vehicles 2008Again using new data from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Highway Loss Data Institute, we've assembled a new list of the Top Ten Least Stolen Vehicles in 2008. Not all of them are undesirable, some just have very good protective devices. Others are just so popular that their owners... |
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72 winners of 2009 Top Safety Pick awards; almost every category from minicar to large pickup has a winnerSeventy-two vehicles earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Top Safety Pick award for 2009. This is more than double the number of 2008 recipients and more than 3 times the number of 2007 winners. Top Safety Pick recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, s... |
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