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News•August 19, 2009

Lift-U Recalls Faulty Wheelchair Lifts Installed in Buses

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Lift-U is recalling certain wheelchair lifts sold as originally installed equipment for various heavy-duty transit buses and also sold as aftermarket equipment.

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News•August 19, 2009

CA to Catalog Highway Repair Needs

SACRAMENTO, CA --- After years of neglect, more than a quarter of California's highway miles are in poor condition and 18 percent are in need of major repair, according to the California Department of Transportation.

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News•August 19, 2009

Drunk Driving Crackdown Set for Labor Day

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, August and September are among the most deadly periods on the roadways.

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News•August 19, 2009

City of Naperville Purchases New 700/800 MHz OpenSky Digital Radio System

NAPERVILLE, IL - Naperville is partnering with the City of Aurora, Illinois, in the purchase of the system, which will provide enhanced in-building and outdoor coverage to provide reliable, interoperable communications between first responders and front-line emergency personnel.

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News•August 18, 2009

Distracted Driving Focus of Workplace Safety Campaign

MCLEAN, VA - The annual Drive Safely Work Week (DSWW), Oct. 5-9, takes aim at distracted drivers, a factor in more than three-fourths of all vehicle crashes in the U.S. and a cost to employers in the billions of dollars.

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News•August 17, 2009

The World's Most Expensive Dummies Save Lives

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN - The Crash-Test Dummy family does invaluable work in the development of tomorrow's ever-safer cars. The dummies may cost anything up to 1.5 million kronor, and at Volvo Cars there are more than 100 members of this tough family.

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News•August 12, 2009

Employee Driving Safety Campaign Set for October

McLEAN, VA --- The Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) is sponsoring Drive Safely Work Week during Oct. 5-9. The national traffic safety campaign will focus on educating employees about safe driving, whether they drive for work or just to and from work.

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News•August 12, 2009

Ford's Paint Technology Goes Global

DEARBORN, MI --- Global paint shops in India, Romania, Mexico and China are in the process of rolling out a Ford paint technology that will not only save the shops time and money, but will lessen their environmental footprint, Ford said.

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News•August 12, 2009

IIHS Releases Latest Bumper Test Results

ARLINGTON, VA --- Bumpers on 2009 models of the Honda Accord, Hyundai Sonata, Mazda 6 and Nissan Maxima performed better than their 2007 predecessors in low-speed crash tests conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the institute said.

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News•August 12, 2009

Mitchell Partners With Collision Repair Research Group

SAN DIEGO, CA --- Mitchell International, a leading consultant to the insurance and collision repair industries, announced a partnership with Thatcham (The Motor Insurance Repair Research Center), a collision repair research group for European and Asian nameplates.

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