New SUV Safety Standards Proposed

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is considering new safety standards for sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks.

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February 3, 2003, 7:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


"Proposals under consideration by a working group at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would require many sport utilities and pickups to be redesigned to make them less likely to plow over the hoods and door sills of cars in collisions...The initiative...is likely to be viewed warily by the auto industry as a costly attack on its most profitable products....For every 100,000 crashes involving a large pickup truck and another vehicle, there are 293 deaths in the other vehicle. For S.U.V.'s there are 205 deaths in the other vehicle.By comparison, there are only 104 such deaths in the second vehicle when it is in a collision with a minivan; they are designed more like cars and ride lower to the ground than most S.U.V.'s and pickups. The number falls to 77 when a midsize car collides with another vehicle."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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