News tagged with 'Auto Accident'

A brake lining and wiring defect has more than 600,000 Chrysler vehicles recalled. This follows another Chrysler recall just one week ago over a sticky accelerator pedal.

37,000 traffic fatalities a year may represent an improvement over the statistics of the past, but various authorities opine on how we can make roads safer in this New York Times Opinion page.

As the summer months approach and teens take to the road, a parent-child driver contract sets out the rules in a clear, concise way, complete with consequences.

A new law that went into effect to reduce the number of teen driving deaths, has sparked a public protest with promises to repeal Kyleigh's Law.

STAND UP Act would bring in tiered system for licensing teen drivers raising the learner's permit to age 16 and making teens wait until the age of 18 to get their driver's license.

Hill jumping involves taking passenger cars and driving fast off a hil crest to make the car airborne. Innocent motorists have been injured by the sport, which largely involves teens who take videos and post them on YouTube and Facebook.

Looking at collision data in three states and the District of Columbia after hand-held phone bans were put into place, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds no difference in the crash rate. The results are perplexing in that other studies have shown distracted driving presents a four-fold increase in the risk of collision and injuries.

437,000 Prius and some models of Lexus worldwide are being recalled because of a braking problem. Toyota's executives apologize, but say the recall is unecessary because the vehicles are safe.

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, a man who doesn't own a car, blames a lack of U.S. leadership, full disclosure by Toyota, and computer electronics for the problems plaguing the world's largest car company, and ultimately consumers.

Dimitrios Biller used to work for Toyota as a corporate attorney. His is sitting on thousands of pages of documents he says will show that the company has a pattern of fraud and secrecy.

Stop driving your recalled Toyotas says Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood after testifying before House Appropriations panel over the recalled Toyotas. Owners of Prius vehicles, not included in the recall, have lodged 96 complaints over sudden acceleration too.

Toyota has announced a fix to the sudden acceleration which many believe does not pinpoint the problem and will not work. Meanwhile, at least 12 lawsuits seeking class-action status have been filed and 19 deaths attributed to sudden acceleration are cited.

Toyota North America president as well as the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will be before a congressional committee February 25, to answer just how long the company has known about the accelerator problem that led to 19 reported deaths, and what the company has done to try to resolve the defect.

The growing problems for Toyota have now expanded into Europe and China where a recall now of the RAV4 and other models are now included over the mysterious faulty accelerator pedal.

Toyota will stop selling eight popular models after a series of recalls the most recent announced last week and an uncertainty about the fix. Assembly lines at five North American plants will be idled in this unprecedented move by a major automaker.