State-of-the-Art Testing Facility Opens To Study Deadly Rollover

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January 2007 (Medialink) -- Rollovers account for only one in 50 car crashes each year, but they claim nearly four of every ten lives lost on the nation's highways â 10,000 fatalities a year. And they are responsible for another 200,000 injuries, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Automotive safety experts at a new $10 million rollover crash testing facility near Detroit will study ways to keep occupants from being ejected in rollover crashes and develop air bag sensors to better protect occupants in a rollover.

General Motors, which opened the facility on December 5, is the first automaker to integrate in-house testing for the infrequent, but often deadly rollover crashes.

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