New research review:
21 drinking age laws in US states are effective |
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an independent, nonprofit, scientific, and educational organization dedicated to reducing the losses — deaths, injuries, and property damage — from crashes on the nation's highways. The Highway Loss Data Institute shares and supports this mission through scientific studies of insurance data representing the human and economic losses resulting from the ownership and operation of different types of vehicles and by publishing insurance loss results by vehicle make and model. Both organizations are wholly supported by auto insurers.
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MORE HEADLINES January 12 • More years of the Institute's newsletter, Status Report, now are online December 19 • IIHS petitions FMCSA to reconsider hours-of-service final rule December 17 • New crash tests of small cars: good ratings in frontal tests but many models need better side and rear crash protection December 16 • Older drivers' fatal crashes trend down; many say that they self-limit their driving December 1 • IIHS supports NHTSA proposal to increase compliant motorcycle helmet use November 25 • Institute announces 2009 Top Safety Pick winners | Status Report cover story (PDF) November 13 • Setting the drinking age at 21 saves lives November 17 • IIHS supports proposed amendments to motorcycle brake systems standard to add and update requirements and test procedures and to harmonize with global technical regulations November 12 • Institute supports NHTSA proposal to retain requirement that lap belts be lockable to secure child restraints November 6 • Critique of red light camera study November 4 • Fatality Facts update: passenger vehicle occupant deaths reached a record low, while motorcyclist deaths hit an all-time high in 2007 |