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Safer - USA - Vehicles, not drivers...
Study: Design changes have saved lives as people speed, drink or don't wear seat belts
WASHINGTON,DC,USA -The New York Times, by Matthew L. Wald -August 10, 2006: -- Cars are becoming safer, but the people who drive them are not, a study by an insurance industry research group has found... In fact, without design changes that have made vehicles safer, including the growing prevalence of air bags, the death toll on the nation's roads would be higher by about 5,000 people annually, more than 11 percent of last year's total, according to the study... The reason, says the report by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, is that drunken driving rates have not changed much in the 10 years studied, seat belt use has climbed only slowly, and people are driving faster...
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