NATIONAL – NHTSA said it “had received reports of 102 incidents in which the accelerator may have become stuck on the Toyota vehicles involved.” According to FORBES – “The impending U.S. recall, the largest in Toyota’s history, followed a horrific crash last month in San Diego in which a mat was suspected of snagging a…
NATIONWIDE – Toyota is in the process of recalling 3.8 million vehicles in the United States. The problem is a removable floor mat. The floor mat could interfere with the vehicle’s accelerator and cause a crash. The company says it will be the largest recall in its history. Toyota owners could learn about the safety…
Hillsborough / Polk County — UPDATE — Fifty (50) crashes on three major highways involving 131 vehicles with more than a dozen people sent to hospitals. It all happened over a five-hour period on a Sunday afternoon. The FHP cites wet roads and heavy traffic as the common causes of these accidents. Just after 3:00…
NATIONAL – According to Bloomberg News, “Merck & Co. is paying claims by the families of more than 3,100 users of its Vioxx [rofecoxib] painkiller who died of heart attacks or strokes blamed on the drug, according to a law firm administering a $4.85 billion settlement fund.” The company is paying “about 3,000 claims for…
POLK COUNTY – A multivehicle crash closed one lane of Interstate 4 westbound at U.S. 27 on Sunday afternoon, backing up traffic for six miles. The first of 23 crashes happened at 4:43 p.m. and caused a chain reaction. Altogether, 48 vehicles were involved, the Florida Highway Patrol reported. FHP officials said there weren’t any…
TAMPA — Seven (7) to eight (8) individual crashes caused about fifty (50) vehicles to pile up on the Howard Frankland Bridge. This massive accident took place soon after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game let out from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. Southbound Interstate 275 was backed up for nearly three hours as the Florida…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION (CPSC) announced that KOHL’S DEPARTMENT STORES INC., of Menomonee Falls, WI, has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $425,000.00. The penalty settlement, which has been provisionally accepted by the commission, resolves CPSC staff allegations that KOHL’S DEPARTMENT STORES knowlingly failed to report to CPSC immediately,…
Not many Americans have heard of denture cream poisoning. A rare ailment, denture cream zinc poisoning can cause serious and debilitating nerve damage. The disorder is associated with excessive exposure to zinc in products like Poligrip and Fixodent. Denture creams like Fixodent and Poligrip contain zinc as a bonding agent. People who ingest too much…
NATIONAL – Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, at Yeshiva University in New York, have linked areas of brain injury to specific altered mental processes caused by concussions. The colored areas show locations of brain injury, including injury to the frontal lobe, in a patient with mild traumatic brain injury. Closed head injuries are…
This test was for IIHS’s 50th year anniversary in the safety research business! Congrats on your 50 years guys! May many more come your way! The dummy in the Malibu suffered only minor leg injuries while the dummy in the Bel Air would have died instantly, this really shows how auto safety has progressed! CLICK…