Highway Traffic Safety

Transportation Safety Tips for Children - Tip 11

Highway Traffic Safety — Children's clothing, especially drawstrings, can cause death or injury. A drawstring can catch in a small gap in playground equipment, a bus handrail, or a bolt. As a child gets off the school bus, a dangling drawstring or loose object may catch ...More…

GET THE KEYS: How You Can Intervene

Highway Traffic Safety — The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Advertising Council's Innocent Victims public service campaign emphasizes the need to intervene and get the keys away from someone about to ...More…

Child Passenger Safety / National Highway Traffic Safety ...

Highway Traffic Safety — Through education, training, enforcement, outreach and legislation, NHTSA seeks to ensure that all children ages 0-16 are properly restrained in the correct restraint system for their age and size every time they travel in a motor vehicle. While ...More…

Click It or Ticket

Highway Traffic Safety — Fall Hazard Prompts NHTSA, CPSC and Evenflo to Announce Recall of Embrace Infant Car Seat/ Carriers Impaired Driving National Enforcement Crackdown (August 21 - September 7, 2009) Announcement of Grant Availability to Help States Upgrade 9-1-1 ...More…

La Muerte De Un Sólo Niño Ya Es Demasiado

Highway Traffic Safety — Las lesiones y muertes causadas por los vehículos que retroceden o salen en marcha atrás de las entradas de las casas o de los estacionamientos ocurren cuando personas se colocan detrás de un vehículo sin que el conductor lo sepa o se dé cuenta. ...More…

What You Need to Know About Air Bags, DOT HS 809 575

Highway Traffic Safety — The Air Bag System for Frontal Crashes When Do Air Bags Deploy? When a Collision Occurs What Happens After a Deployment? Air Bag Contact Injuries Air Bags, Safety Belts and Child Safety Seats f you are among the millions of Americans who will ...More…

Driving when you have cataracts

Highway Traffic Safety — Having a cataract can make it harder for you to see the road, street signs, other cars, and people walking because a cataract clouds the eyes lens. Among the signs of a cataract: Having a cataract also can mean that you need to change your ...More…

Driving When You Have Arthritis

Highway Traffic Safety — Having arthritis can make your joints swollen and stiff, which can limit how far you can bend or move your shoulders, hands, head and neck. This can make it harder to grasp or turn the steering wheel, apply the brake and gas pedals, put on your ...More…

Driving and Alzheimer's Disease

Highway Traffic Safety — There are some early and clear warning signs that Alzheimer's is affecting your driving. For example, you might: Need more help than you used to with directions, or with learning a new driving route; Have trouble remembering where you are going, ...More…

DOT HS 810 652

Highway Traffic Safety — Isn't it unfair to restrict all teenagers' driving privileges? Why not just penalize the problem drivers? Are nighttime restrictions critical components of graduated licensing? What guarantees that beginners will get more supervised driving under ...More…

All Vehicles Have Blind Spots

Highway Traffic Safety — Vehicle backover injuries and deaths occur when someone, without a driver's knowledge or awareness, is positioned behind a vehicle as the driver is backing out of a driveway or other parking spot. Most victims of backovers are the elderly and ...More…

Driving when you have sleep apnea

Highway Traffic Safety — Sleep apnea is a condition in which breathing is interrupted during sleep. This results in a decrease in the oxygen level in your blood. Your body reacts by partially or completely awakening each time you stop breathing. This may occur many times ...More…