They are very effective. Research around the world shows that they cut down on speeding.

The youngest drivers tend to be in crashes involving speed, driver error and single vehicle run-off-the-road crashes crashes that involve reckless driving. Older people are involved in more crashes (measured by miles driven), but they’re...

Side airbags with head protection and electronic stability control are in a class of safety feature that is extremely rare, … These are features that reduce the risk of death by significant margins.

It would clearly help if the driving age were raised. But it never has gained any traction in most places to simply raise the age.

There are a lot of these technologies in the offing and it’s still too early to know how beneficial they’re going to be.

Typically rollovers represent a small percentage of crashes but are disproportionately high in the number of deaths because they’re so lethal.

CPSC [also] recommends that kids under the age of 6 should never be allowed on a trampoline, period. We’re also telling the industry they need to make sure that the shock absorbing pads are put...

The roads are definitely safer, but the progress we were making has stalled. Part of the problem is that many of the gains we’ve seen in making safer vehicles, getting more people to buckle up,...

We look at this from the standpoint that the more parental involvement the better because too many teens end up driving in risky situations, even with graduated driving laws in many states.

SUVs are absolutely not a good choice for a teenager, … The bottom line is you don’t have to buy a tank to get good safety.

Elderly drivers, despite the popular driver notion, are not the big risk. Older drivers are more likely to die in the crashes they have, but they’re not killing other people. Teen drivers are.

There are two things working against young drivers: inexperience and immaturity. To the extent that you can give teens more time to develop their driving skills and the judgment to counteract their lack of experience...

The biggest potential from the standpoint of safety researchers is that we would be able to get much more extensive and potentially more accurate information of what happens in real crashes.

It’s acceptable with its standard side airbags on the side test and also good in the head test, and that’s a relatively inexpensive car.

Ford knows it has a problem with the Fusion and is working to go and fix it and we expect to retest it later this year.

You can never repeal the laws of physics, and a smaller, lighter vehicle is always at a disadvantage no matter how many safety features are built into it.

Fatal crash involvements for 16-year-olds fell 26 percent from 1993 to 2003 as states began to enact graduated licensing laws. But this has not solved the problem by any means. Motor vehicle crashes are the...

These numbers are useless in doing a red light camera study.

In 2004 we went and observed student parking lots and half the cars were cars the institute does not recommend,

Graduated licensing has been the only thing that has worked.

About 13 percent of [city] accidents involve people changing lanes and crashing into the car next to them.

That, in and of itself, makes it impossible to do a before and after analysis.

This is a really good resource for consumers who want to find out what’s been recalled by a manufacturer but don’t know where to look.

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

Safety should not be a luxury that only comes standard on high-end models. If side airbags aren’t included in a popular option package, most people won’t get them.

Once again, these tests show the importance of side-impact bags. In a head-on crash you have the entire front end of the vehicle to crush and help protect you. In a side crash, there’s very...

We had a very difficult time working with Burger King,

Yes, men drive more, but our studies show that they’re by far the riskier, more dangerous drivers.

Obviously, a Pontiac Firebird is generally going to be driven in a much different way than a Honda minivan.

It is important that parents enforce strict rules about driving: no nighttime driving, no driving around with friends in the car. These are the riskiest situations.

When you have a teen passenger in the vehicle with a teen driver, the risk of a crash is twice as high. If you have two or more teen passengers in a vehicle the risk...

There is a misconception that older drivers are somehow a menace out on the road, and that really is not borne out by the facts. Thirty-year-olds kill far more people on the roads than 70-year-olds.

These vehicles are among the cream of the crop for mid-sized cars in terms of safety performance.

I don’t think their use is widespread enough yet to study.

They’re more likely than younger drivers to die in their crashes because of their fragility and their age. They’re more likely to die in a crash a younger person would survive.

The research is clear that raising speed limits costs lives. People need to weigh the benefits of getting places faster versus the fact that more people will die in crashes.