In an effort to keep America's tiniest citizens safe, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission recently approved federal mandatory standards aimed at improving the safety of infant sling carriers and bathtubs. Popular with parents on the go, Infant sling carriers are...
Here in the Sunshine State, it's not unusual to see teens at the helm of boats without adult supervision. Florida law allows those as young as 14 to operate boats after passing a boater safety course approved by the National Association of State Boating Law...
Via the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, Palo Alto, CA-based HP has issued an expansion of its earlier recall of notebook batteries that pose a burn hazard. Today, the recall first announced in June affects batteries shipped with certain HP, Compaq,...
Officials with the US Department of Transportation are revving up work toward the deployment of Connected Vehicle Technology, designed to ultimately prevent hundreds of thousands of automobile crashes, potentially saving countless lives. The DOT's proposed rule calls...
Commercial truckloads can easily exceed 100,000 pounds. Safely traveling at highway speeds with that amount of weight behind you takes focus and skill. Anything that affects a driver's ability to concentrate on his or her job can mean devastating, even deadly results....
Earlier this month, we brought you the heartrending story of a fatal crash that took the lives of five people, including a young mother and her two small children in Tampa. Now, behind-the-wheel use of a second popular social media feature – Facebook Live - apparently...
The US Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and National Safety Council recently announced a joint effort to end car crash fatalities on America's...
The US Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently announced a new safety standard aimed at preventing some 2,400 pedestrian injuries each year. Under the new federal rule, all newly manufactured hybrid and electric...
A popular but controversial social media feature may be to blame for the heartbreaking deaths of five people in Tampa late last month – and it's not the first time that Snapchat's speed filter, which records how fast a phone is traveling and awards users virtual...
