AAA Study Finds Driver Error Causes a Majority of Crashes Between Cars and Heavy-Duty Trucks

IIHS Explores Crash Injury Disparities in Men and Women

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is examining ways to improve safety for women as discrepancies in injury rates and severity continue to exist.

Insurance Institute Calls for Changes in Luxury Car Bumper Design

ARLINGTON, Va. --- New tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that vehicle bumpers --- even those on expensive cars --- don't adequately resist damage in low-speed impacts.

Midsize Cars Show Improved Side-Impact Protection

ARLINGTON, Va. --- Occupant protection in side impacts of midsize cars is improving as automakers introduce safer designs and add side airbags as standard equipment.

New IIHS Research Shows These Vehicles Pose Greater Risk to Pedestrians

Pickups, SUVs, and vans with a hood height greater than 40 inches are about 45% more likely to cause fatalities in pedestrian crashes, according to the IIHS.

NYC Aims to Clean Up Injuries, Fatalities Caused by Garbage Trucks

Over the past decade, some 43 people lost their lives in a collision involving a commercial sanitation truck in New York City.

AAA Study Finds Driver Error Causes a Majority of Crashes Between Cars and Heavy-Duty Trucks

Nissan's Collision-Avoidance Research Takes Inspiration from Bees

TOKYO, Japan --- Nissan Motor Co. has taken a lesson from bees to develop a two-wheeled mobile robot that can avoid collisions with objects in its path.

AAA Study Finds Driver Error Causes a Majority of Crashes Between Cars and Heavy-Duty Trucks

More than half of all fatal crashes involving a car and a heavy-duty truck are caused by driver error, and most of those are by drivers of the cars, according to a study conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.