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: Legal BlogNHTSA Special Crash Investigations: Protecting Children In and Around Cars; Backover and Non-Crash Events
The Special Crash Investigations unit of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has, since October 2006, been collecting detailed data on backover and non-crash events to support the agency’s efforts to mitigate these kinds of incidents. The types of cases investigated include: Backover; backing-up light passenger vehicle strikes a person from the rear or approaching from the side; certified advanced-air-bag cases; school bus crashworthiness investigations; rollaway; vehicle slips out of gear and injures a nonoccupant; carbon monoxide poisoning; vehicles with adaptive vehicle controls; not-in-transport cases; and other vehicle safety issues as requested by the agency.
The focus is on children in situations such as the following:
Full post as published by Legal Blog on July 14, 2008 (boomark / email).
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Registries by State and County
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Databases and organizations
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