| Welcome to the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) public
affairs news and information archive for 1999. The
mission of the NHTSA is to reduce deaths, injuries &
economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes by
setting & enforcing safety standards for motor
vehicles. Grants are awarded to states to help them
organize, develop & implement highway safety
programs. Want to know if your
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Find out by clicking here.
 New Crash
Test Result Available on NHTSA's World Wide Web Site
(1/13/99)
Secretary
Slater Announces Results Of Survey on Speeding and Unsafe
Driving, National Program to Prevent Red Light Running
(1/22/99)
Remarks by
Secretary Slater at the Aggressive Driving and the Law
Symposium (1/22/99)
Rose
McMurray Named Head of NHTSA Traffic Safety Programs
(1/26/99)
NHTSA to
Hold Listening Session before Implementing Agreement on
Global Technical Regulations (1/28/99)
NHTSA
Publishes List of December 1998 Recalls (2/8/99)
Secretary
Slater Announces $5 Million in Grants to States,
Territories (3/3/99)
DOT
Requires Upgraded Rollover Warning Label for Sport
Utility Vehicle (3/5/99)
NHTSA
Releases Second Group of Crash Test Results (3/8/99)
Statement
by Secretary Slater on Safety Recommendations of Blue
Ribbon Panel II for Protecting Older Child Passengers in
Motor Vehicles (3/15/99)
NHTSA
Publishes List of January Recalls (3/19/99)
8,500
Billboards Across America to Remind Motorists to Buckle
Up (3/22/99)
NHTSA
Announces Recipients of Highway Safety Awards (3/23/99)
NHTSA
Publishes List of February 1999 Recalls (3/29/99)
NHTSA
Deputy Administrator Phil Recht to Practice Law in Los
Angeles (4/6/99)
Secretary
Slater Applauds DaimlerChrysler for Funding Alabama Crash
Research Center (4/20/99)
New NHTSA
Crash Test Results Available on World Wide Web Site
(4/22/99)
U.S. DOT
Studies Find Strict Laws, Tough Enforcement Are Effect
Life Savers on Highways (4/28/99)
Secretary
Slater, CART Chairman Craig Announce Joint Safety
Initiative (4/30/99)
NHTSA
Publishes List of March 1999 Recalls (5/11/99)
Secretary
Slater Hails Increased Seat Belt Use (5/24/99)
Statement
by Secretary Slater on Michigan's Adoption of a Standard
Enforcement Seat Belt Bill (5/26/99)
1998
Traffic Fatalities Decline; Alcohol-Related Deaths Reach
Record Low (5/27/99)
Statement
by Secretary Slater on Adoption by Texas of .08 BAC as
the Standard for Drunk Driving (6/1/99)
NHTSA/NIH
Combat Problem of Fatigue, Sleepiness Among Fast-Growing
Populations of Shift Workers and Teenagers (6/3/99)
NHTSA
Releases Third Group of Crash Test Results (6/4/99)
NHTSA
Publishes List of April 1999 Recalls (6/9/99)
New NHTSA Crash Test Results Available on World
Wide Web Site (6/18/99)
NHTSA
Publishes List of May 1999 Recalls (7/7/99)
CPSC,
NHTSA and Cosco Announce Recall of Infant Car Seats/
Carriers (7/8/99)
Secretary
Slater Praises Meharry Medical College, GM for Report on
Seat Belt Use (7/20/99)
NHTSA
Warns Ford SVT Mustang Cobra Owners About Possible Brake
Hose Failures (7/28/99)
NHTSA
Publishes List of June 1999 Recalls (8/4/99)
Secretary
Slater Reminds Drivers to Watch for Motorcyclists
(8/5/99)
NHTSA
Proposes Warning For Seat Belt Positioners For Children
(8/10/99)
Final
1999 NHTSA Crash Test Results Available on World Wide Web
Site (8/13/99)
Secretary
Slater Hails First Phase of System To Make Child Seat
Installation Safer, Easier (8/31/99)
President
Clinton Announces Record Low for Alcohol-Related Traffic
Deaths (9/2/99)
NHTSA
Publishes July 1999 Recalls (9/9/99)
U.S.
Transportation Secretary Slater Focuses Nation's
Attention on Preventing Child Pedestrian Injuries,
Fatalities (9/13/99)
U.S.
Transportation Secretary Slater Announces $42.75 Million
in Federal Grants to States to Deter Drunk Driving,
Increase Seat Belt Use (9/15/99)
Rosalyn
Millman Appointed NHTSA Deputy Administrator (9/30/99)
NHTSA
Administrator Ricardo Martinez, M.D. Will Leave NHTSA and
Return to the Private Sector (9/30/99)
NHTSA
Issues Consumer Advisory on Side Air Bags and Child
Safety (10/14/99)
Millman
Named Acting NHTSA Administrator (10/20/99)
NHTSA
Will Crash Test 58 Model Year 2000 Vehicles (10/28/99)
NHTSA
Publishes list of August 1999 Recalls (11/1/99)
Secretary
Slater Announces Updated Proposal to Improve Benefits of
Air Bags and Reduce Risks (11/2/99)
Secretary
Slater Announces Grants of $54.6 Million to Increase Seat
Belt Use (11/2/99)
New
Brochure Compares Head Injury Protection for New Cars,
Trucks (11/16/99)
Secretary
Slater Joins in Launching National Effort to Enforce Seat
Belt, Child Seat Laws (11/22/99)
Secretary
Slater Announces Proposal to Require Internal Trunk
Releases on Cars (12/15/99)
Tennis
Stars Venus and Serena Williams Join Secretary Slater in
Urging Motorists to "Buckle Up" (12/21/99)
New NHTSA
Crash Test Results for Model Year 2000 Passenger Cars Now
Available on World Wide Web (12/27/99)
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