While expensive and futuristic features grab attention in the auto industry, modest upgrades to seat belts are saving lives.

This tiny, unassuming button has an important purpose. (Trust us: You'd miss it if it disappeared!) There are a lot of eye-catching and weird car features in your vehicle, no matter the make and model ...

Two of the world’s biggest carmakers are pulling more than 1.1 million vehicles off U.S. roads for safety fixes, a reminder ...

Seat belts are credited with saving nearly 14,000 lives last year. But they’re designed to keep the average 40-year-old man safe in a crash. And the amount of force required to keep a 40-year-old man ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As major strides have been made to improve the safety of front seat belts in recent years, a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) claims that rear ...

Question: I’m pregnant and I’ve seen seat belt attachments that clip under the seat and say they make belts safer for ...

Seat belts. For the vast majority of us, putting on a seat belt when entering the car is second nature. But for some, unfortunately, the act remains optional — and that’s leading to fatal results. In ...

Federal safety regulators have closed a high profile investigation into seat belt problems in nearly 568,000 Hyundai sport ...

Together for Safer Roads recently published “Seat Belt Safety Standard Operating Procedures: How to create and maintain a culture of safety by promoting seat belt safety procedures.” This new guide ...

Seat-belt gadgets marketed to protect pregnant women may actually increase crash risk. Learn why experts say to skip ...

Efforts to promote safety on Interstate 90 continue to ramp up with the launch of the state’s safety corridor, dubbed the “Speed and Seat Belt Safety Corridor.” The action, naturally, serves to ...

Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella was driving at only 30 m.p.h. one winter evening in 1958, when his car skidded into a utility pole. Despite the moderate speed, Campy broke his bull neck in the crackup; ...