Are Your Tires Dangerously Underinflated?
Most drivers don’t know how to check their tire pressure and half don’t know what their pressure should be David Arv BragiTravel (June 2, 2015) (Photo: Amy Johansson/Shutterstock) Did you know that low tire pressure, much like high blood pressure, can be unhealthy for your car? In fact, an estimated 11,000 tire-related crashes cause nearly 200 deaths…
Road trip Safety
Each year thousands of American families pack up the car to go on roadtrips, but many do not consider this dangerous fact: unsecured objects in your car can become projectiles in a crash. George Clark of Wisconsin should know. He and some fellow dads were coming home from Boy Scout Leader training when another car pulled right into their…
The Facts About Leaving Dogs in Hot Cars
Go to: http://heatkills.org/the-facts/the-facts-about-leaving-dogs-in-hot-cars/ See source data for this graphic, from San Francisco State University, at: http://ggweather.com/heat/ Quotes by experts “Children have died in cars with the temperature as low as 63 degrees. Basically the car becomes a greenhouse. At 70 degrees on a sunny day, after a half hour, the temperature inside a car is…
Honda Responds After Ohio Teen Dies from Being Pinned by Folding Seat Inside Minivan
Ohio Teen Who Died After Becoming Trapped by Folding Seat in His Van Called 911 Twice A 16-year-old Ohio teen died of asphyxiation on Tuesday after becoming pinned by a folding seat in a minivan while trying to grab his tennis equipment from the back of the vehicle CHAR ADAMS April 13, 2018 11:38 AM…
Child car seats: Not all of them fit your vehicle perfectly
So what can you do to make sure your child remains safe? 07/24/2013 By Daryl Nelson If you’ve ever tried to find the perfect baby’s car seat for your car, then you probably know the match isn’t always perfect. Sometimes the seat doesn’t hold in place and it rattles around a bit, or it’ll sit at…
Best Car Escape Tools
Readiness For Automibile Emergencies Click here to see our #1 pick According to the United States Department of Transportation‘s Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Americans spend a lot of time behind the wheel. Here are some facts that might help elucidate that bland claim: Americans take an average of 1.1 billion trips per day, a trip being defined…
Underride Collisions with Big Rigs
Truck trailers can (easily) be made safer Tractor-trailer rolls over in 3-car Tollway crash on Aug. 12, 2015. (WGN-TV) Our view: Crash tests show that hundreds of lives might be saved if future truck trailers were required to have relatively inexpensive underride guards along their sides The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), a widely-respected safety…