Traffic deaths are down so far in 2025, according to new data shared by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ...

NHTSA claims the company issued a recall of Japan-based trucks in 2004 and assured the U.S. agency that the same problem did not affect U.S. models. It took another year before U.S. vehicles were ...

Air bag inflators have led to injuries and at least two deaths, NHTSA says. The NHTSA, which started its investigation in 2015, said air bag inflator ruptures have led to two deaths: one in Canada ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has amended its Final Rule on safety standards for parking brakes to include all trucks, buses and multipurpose passenger vehicles with ...

NHTSA, which had opened a preliminary evaluation in July 2023 into loss of steering control reports in 280,000 Tesla Model 3 and Y vehicles, said in February it identified a total of 2,388 complaints.

Carlson noted that pedestrian fatalities have increased 53% in 10 years; NHTSA earlier estimated that almost 43,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes in 2021, a 10.5% increase.

NHTSA’s new regulations will eventually supplant a 2016 voluntary agreement between the agency and 20 automakers to make automatic emergency braking standard on 95% of passenger vehicles by the ...