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...National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) warned Friday that air bags can be lethal to children who aren't wearing seat belts. "This is not a false alarm," reports TIME's William McWhirter. "These airbags pack quite a wallop. Small children who aren't strapped in are very vulnerable to trauma from the impact of both the crash and the airbag. Common sense should tell parents to keep children out of the front seat, anyway." The NHTSA is investigating the car accident deaths of six children - ages four to nine - to see if their injuries were caused by inflating...
...continued to mount linking General Motors pickup trucks to fiery crashes. Federal regulators were reluctant to recall the 5 million vehicles still on the road, but new tests conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finally persuaded them to act. The pickups' fuel tanks, says William Boehly, NHTSA's top enforcement official, "have a risk of fire in fatal side-impact crashes that is 2.4 times greater than that of Ford trucks. General Motors should therefore initiate a recall." About 300 people have died in crashes involving GM trucks. The callback, which could cost the automaker as much...
...already been hit with more than 100 product-liability lawsuits in connection with the gas tanks. The company has settled some suits, but it could face another wave of litigation as a result of the new disclosures. Consumer groups are pressing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to order a recall of the 5 million pickups still on the road...
...maintains that the older design is safe, but its own engineers seem to have raised questions about the outboard location as far back as 1970. GM submitted 70,000 pages of internal documents to the NHTSA last week as part of the agency's review of pickup-truck safety. In a memo dated Sept. 7, 1970, safety engineer George Carvil warned of possible fuel leaks in side collisions. "Moving these side tanks inboard," he wrote, "might eliminate most of these potential leakers." An internal memo dated Dec. 15, 1983, by product analyst Richard Monkaba, discussed the company's plan...
...large gas container. Says the executive: "The perfect place for a fuel tank hasn't been invented yet." GM is resisting efforts to recall the pickups, a process that would involve installing a protective lining in the fuel tank and cost the automaker an estimated $50 million. The NHTSA, which could order a recall, is expected to decide by mid- December whether...