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May
IIHS: In newer vehicles, back seats are less safe than the front
Rear car seats are traditionally safer than front seats, but in the face of recent car safety improvements, rear-seat safety is now lagging. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has been making efforts to raise awareness of this fact, developing a series of crash tests to i...
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May
Safety report on Tesla’s Navigate on Autopilot feature
Ohio motorists may be interested in a recent safety report regarding self-driving automobiles manufactured by Tesla. Researchers with Consumer Reports stated that Tesla’s recent update of the Navigate on Autopilot feature is potentially dangerous to drivers. During a Consumer Rep...
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May
Driving in the rain can be deadly
When it rains in Ohio, many motorists continue to drive at or above the speed limit, but it is important not to. Even a little rain can greatly increase the risk of a fatal accident involvement. According to a researcher at the North Carolina Institute of Climate Studies, a light...
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May
Volvo to install cameras, sensors to detect drunk driving
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that in 2017, 10,874 people died in the U. S. due to drunk driving crashes. Every day, about 30 people in the U. S. are dying in such crashes. Ohio residents who own a Volvo car should know that the automaker has announced pla...
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May
Faulty vehicle components can increase your risk in a car
If you had to imagine the common causes of motor vehicle accidents, you would likely list issues like impaired driving, distracted driving and even drowsy driving. Although you wouldn’t be wrong by including those items on the list, you would be overlooking an important factor th...
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May
Driving while drowsy is more dangerous than many realize
A lack of sleep often leads to fatigue, a grumpy attitude and difficulty concentrating. The negative impacts that sleep deprivation has on a person are well documented. Still, some Ohio residents feel that it’s okay to drive while they are drowsy. The research says otherwise. Tha...
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May
Study links distracted driving death rates with cellphone laws
A new study suggests that distracted driving is factoring into more and more car accident fatalities. From 2015 to 2017, more than 1,400 people in the U. S. died in car crashes where one of the drivers was distracted by a cellphone. However, fatality rates differ by state. Ohio, w...
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May
NSC releases grim 2018 accident report
Motor vehicle accidents around the country in 2018 claimed more than 40,000 lives and left a further 4. 5 million road users seriously injured according to preliminary figures released by the National Safety Council on Feb. 13. The nonprofit advocacy group based its findings on da...
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May
Preventing drowsy driving crashes in Ohio
Driving drowsy is unsafe, yet nearly one-third of respondents in a recent AAA survey admitted to doing so within the previous month. Their drowsiness, they said, was so bad that they could barely keep their eyes open. The National Sleep Foundation has compared the effects of slee...
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May
AAA: GPS and texting raise risk for auto accidents
The results of a new AAA study on the hazards of vehicle infotainment systems should not be surprising to some drivers in Ohio. However, the fact remains that there are many who see nothing wrong with utilizing technology behind the wheel. One out of three Americans uses an infot...
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