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VIENNA, VA – The 'Drive Safely Work Week' 2008 campaign Oct. 6-10 is designed to heighten motorists' awareness of the special needs and considerations of all roadway users.

Tags: Drive Safely Work Week, Network of Employers for Traffic Safety

TORRANCE, CA – Automotive Fleet is bringing back an old favorite – an anecdotal look at fleet management and driving a company vehicle: Strange but True Fleet Stories.

Tags: Automotive Fleet, fleet stories

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Hundreds of thousands of tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the United States hold commercial driver's licenses despite also qualifying for full federal disability payments, according to a new U.S. safety study.

Tags: Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

PROVIDENCE, RI --- Across the country, police are seeing more incidents of extreme drunk driving, with recorded blood-alcohol levels reaching limits that doctors say would be lethal to most people, ABC News reported.

Tags: drunk driving, ignition interlock devices

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled this week that the government can't withhold key data on major car accidents from the public.

Tags: Early Warning data , National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , Public Citizen, Rubber Manufacturers Association

REDWOOD SHORES, CA --- GreenRoad Technologies, a leader in driver safety technologies, announced that Amadeus Capital Partners has joined Virgin Green Fund, Benchmark Capital, and Balderton Capital in providing C round financing of $17.5 million.

Tags: Amadeus Capital Partners , GreenRoad Safety Center , GreenRoad Technologies

ARLINGTON, VA --- The Toyota Tacoma was the only one of five small pickup trucks, all 2008 models, to earn the highest rating of "good" for occupant protection in recent side crash tests conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Tags: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety , small pickup side crash tests

MEMPHIS, TN --- Seventy-two drivers from 36 states representing the FedEx Corp. operating companies will compete in the National Truck Driving Championships (NTDC) in Houston Aug. 20-23.

Tags: American Trucking Associations, FedEx Corp., National Truck Driving Championships

REDWOOD CITY, CA --- A married couple managing an auto repair shop in Northern California have pleaded not guilty to felony charges that they swindled customers by faking car damage and charging for fake repairs.

Tags: auto insurance fraud, Group Specialist

TORRANCE, Calif. --- Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) U.S.A. Inc. currently offers integrated Bluetooth hands-free wireless systems in 15 models and will make it available on the all-new 2009 Venza when it goes on sale this fall.

Tags: bluetooth, Toyota Motor Sales

TALLAHASSEE, FL --- The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV), Florida Rider Training Program (FRTP) and Tallahassee law enforcement have joined forces with area motorcyclists to launch a new motorcycle safety campaign.

Tags: Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Veh, motorcycle safety

TOKYO, Japan --- The Tokyo High Court today ruled that Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and three of its former executives were guilty of falsifying reports of defective parts in a case dating back to 2002.

Tags: Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Tokyo High Court

FRANKFORT, KY --- Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement (KVE) will become a division of the Kentucky State Police under an executive order signed this week by Gov. Steve Beshear.

Tags: Gov. Steve Beshear, Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement

BOSTON --- Liberty Mutual Group and Safeco Corp. announced that Liberty Mutual remains committed to the previously announced acquisition of Safeco by the end of the third quarter of 2008.

Tags: Liberty Mutual Group , Safeco Corp.

WASHINGTON – EPA is soliciting public input on the effects of climate change and the potential ramifications of the Clean Air Act in relation to greenhouse gas emissions.

Tags: EPA, greenhouse gas emissions

DEARBORN, Mich. --- Ford Motor Co. announced plans to offer more active safety product features and technologies that consumers increasingly want and to ramp up research and development into next-generation accident avoidance safety technologies.

Tags: accident avoidance safety technologies, active safety features, Ford Motor Co.

BURLINGTON, MA & AACHEN, GERMANY – Nuance Communications' in-car distraction study revealed significant benefits when drivers were able to use speech recognition while driving.

Tags: 2008 In-Car Distraction Study , Nuance Communications, Inc., safety and response times, speech recognition

ATLANTA – Hughes Telematics' is coupling its technology with Intrado's powerful database to facilitate swift, accurate, and appropriate response to drivers in emergency situations.

Tags: 9-1-1 infrastructure, Automatic Crash Notification, emergency communications network, Hughes Telematics, Intrado Emergency Call Relay Center, Intrado Inc., Public Safety Answering Point

NORWALK, CT – Xerox will delpoy I.D. Systems' PowerKeyPLUS for Wireless Industrial Fleet Management on a fleet of forklifts at a Xerox distribution center in Ohio.

Tags: impact sensing, PowerKeyPLUS, safety checklists, vehicle access control, Xerox

FAIRFIELD, CA --- Copart Inc., a leader in remarketing services for salvage vehicles, has opened a new 20-acre facility in Prairie Grove, Arkansas.

Tags: Copart, salvage vehicles, Willis J. Johnson

WESTWOOD, MA --- In less than 48 hours, LoJack Corp.'s LoJack For Motorcycles was instrumental in helping Las Vegas police and the Southern Nevada Auto Theft Task Force break up two theft rings June 14-16.

Tags: Las Vegas Police, LoJack

BURLINGTON, MA --- Nuance Communications Inc., a leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions, released the results of a study that measures the safety benefits and response times when people use speech recognition to control their in-car systems.

Tags: 2008 In-Car Distraction Study , Nuance Communications Inc, voice recognition

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters on Tuesday, July 8, unveiled a new plan to improve the federal government's automobile crash tests and strengthen its five-star vehicle safety rating system.

Tags: five-star vehicle safety rating system, Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters

REDWOOD SHORES, CA --- GreenRoad Technologies, a leader in driver safety technologies, announced it has formed a strategic partnership with SafetyFirst, a company devoted to reducing commercial auto collisions.

Tags: GreenRoad Safety Center , GreenRoad Technologies, SafetyFirst

DAYTON, OH --- RLP Engineering announced an enhancement to its existing Intelliturn smart turn signal system that now includes an automatic turn-on function.

Tags: Intelliturn, RLP Engineering