Also Try Autos Car Design Flaws Highway Safety Safety for Hybrid Cars Papers -01-09-07 Booster Seats a Top Safety Feature for Children (AdCouncil.org) "It's surprising, but being buckled up with a safety belt is not the safest way for many children to ride in a vehicle. Safety belts are designed for adults, and children under 4'9" tall should ride with a booster seat. Children prematurely moved to seat belts are 4 times more likely to suffer serious head injuries during a collision than children in child safety or booster seats." "The booster seat message is a crucial one, NHTSA estimates that up to 90% of children in the U.S. who should be using a booster seat are not. The goal of this campaign is to educate parents of children who have outgrown their child safety seat that a booster seat is a life-saving transition to an adult safety belt." 01-07 -07-03-07 Most Head Restraints in Larger Vehicles "Poor" or "Marginal" (CBS News) "The head restraints in 54 larger vehicles — out of 87 tested — provided only 'poor' or 'marginal' protection from neck injuries in simulated rear-impact crashes conducted by the insurance industry. Just 12 were rated acceptable or 'good.' " 12-05 -07-29-08 Car-Truck Collisions Safety (USA Today) "Major automakers have decided to stop joint efforts aimed at reducing risks when cars and trucks collide and have dropped plans to help draft a federal rule, as requested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration." 07-08 -11-20-06 No U.S. Cars Among Most Safe (MSNBC News) "Imported models took all 13 spots on the U.S. insurance industry’s list of safest vehicles this year, due mainly to a new requirement that all cars and sport utilities on the list have systems to keep them stable in an emergency." 11-06 -12-04-05 Ten Cars Given Gold Safety Rating (MSNBC News) "Ten 2006 passenger cars won praise from the insurance industry Sunday for offering top-of-the-line protection to passengers in front, side and rear crashes." "Winners of the institute’s gold award included the Ford Five Hundred and Mercury Montego with optional side air bags; the Saab 9-3; the Subaru Legacy; and the Honda Civic four-door. The Five Hundred and Montego are corporate twins and were considered by the institute to be the same car, for award purposes." 12-05 Best Safety Option for a Car - Electronic Stability Control (CNNMoney) "Now two studies from Europe and Japan -- where consumers have more widely embraced the systems -- confirm what I've long believed: that stability control may be second only to seat belts in safeguarding drivers and passengers."  "Toyota found that electronic stability control reduced single-vehicle crashes in Japan by a remarkable 35 percent and head-on crashes by 30 percent." 10-03 Car Theft - Most Popular Models (CrimeDoctor.com) List the top 25 most stolen vehicles for three years. Four-fifths of the most stolen cars are either Honda Accords or Toyota Camrys. 01-05 Car Theft - Preventing (Edmunds.com) "We're going to give you the unique opportunity to look inside the mind of the car thief and learn how he steals cars. With the help of police auto theft experts and auto theft professionals, we've compiled this list of some of the ways thieves steal cars followed by suggestions of how to stop them from doing it to you." 7-05 Car Theft - Worst Cities (MSN Money) "A new study looks at all 336 of the nation’s metro areas. Cars in California ‘hot spots’ were dozens of times more likely to be stolen." 8-05 Classic Car Safety Requirements (USA Today) "Federal law holds cars only to the standards that were in effect at the time of the vehicle's manufacture. But many states have come up with their own regulations for classic cars, and often prohibit their use for routine transportation." 8-05 Ford Puts Air Bags in Seat Belts (CBS News) "Ford Motor Co. plans to introduce seat belt-mounted air bags in the back seat of the 2011 Ford Explorer sport utility vehicle, which will hit the market next fall. Ford says it's the first automaker to mass produce the technology." 11-09 How Much Is the Cost of War in Iraq? (CostofWar.com) Provides a running total of the cost of war in Iraq and compares it to other uses of the same amount of money, such as for health care for children or education assistance. "War affects everyone, not just those directly involved in the fighting. This webpage is a simple attempt to demonstrate one of the more quantifiable effects of war: the financial burden it places on our tax dollars." Quotes a former president, Dwight D. Eisenhower: " 'Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.' " 9-03 Insurance Institute: Least Safe Cars of 2009 (USA Today) "While everyone was taking note of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's list of the safest cars yesterday, we became curious about the bottom of the list. Sure, it's one thing to make the list of recommendations, but quite another to advise what models to avoid." 11-09 Safe Cars - Rollover and Crash Tests (NHTSA.dot.gov) Provides results of tests. 6-04

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