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Not-in-Traffic Risk

There’s an old saw that says the only safe car is the one that never leaves the driveway, but a recent report from NHTSA highlights the danger that cars can pose even before they get into traffic.

The NiTS 2007 system provided information about an estimated 1,159 fatalities and 98,000 injuries that occurred in nontraffic crashes such as single-vehicle crashes on private roads, collisions with pedestrians on driveways, and two-vehicle crashes in parking facilities.”

All the sobering details are here.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 5:09 pm and is filed under Risk, Traffic safety. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  1. Jack Says:
    February 3rd, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    Very comprehensive report. Many accidents cited in the report did not happen to the person driving the vehicle as one-third of the nontraffic crash injuries involved pedestrians and cyclists.

    Forbes has a distilled version:http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/28/car-accident-injuries-lifestyle-vehicles_0128_car_injuries.html?partner=yahoobuzz

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