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...cars that federal regulators say are fitted with unsafe seat belts. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration contend that the rear seat belts in the 1995 Chrysler Cirrus and Dodge Stratus models have a defective anchoring system and are not strong enough. The case is the first time the NHTSA has taken an automaker to court for failing a government safety standard test. "Usually the government and automakers try to work out an agreement ahead of time," TIME's Joseph Szczesny says. "But Chrysler felt nothing was wrong with these cars and wanted to establish a precedent. The company does...
...cars that federal regulators say are fitted with unsafe seat belts. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration contend that the rear seat belts in the 1995 Chrysler Cirrus and Dodge Stratus models have a defective anchoring system and are not strong enough. The case is the first time the NHTSA has taken an automaker to court for failing a government safety standard test. "Usually the government and automakers try to work out an agreement ahead of time," TIME's Joseph Szczesny says. "But Chrysler felt nothing was wrong with these cars and wanted to establish a precedent. The company does...
...present dispute centers on whether the government properly tested the belts. According to NHTSA documents, when Chrysler duplicated the federal tests, the belts still failed. Chrysler contends the anchor system works properly when the testing equipment is placed closer to the seat. The automaker says the government standard does not specify how close to the seat the equipment should be placed. The two sides will conduct further tests to use in the court case. Szczesny reports that the government will also try to subpoena internal Chrysler documents to see what the company's engineers found as they prepared the cars...
...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...