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This video from Consumer Reports explains what to do if you vehicle is subject to sudden, uncontrolled acceleration.

It is not uncommon to watch a vehicle pull up in the parking lot of a service station or convenience store and watch the driver get out and walk inside, leaving the vehicle unlocked, idling and unattended. What better opportunity for a car thief or joyrider can a person provide?

Do all the bugs fall out of the sky, overcome by smoke, after your vehicle goes by? Being caught in traffic behind a vehicle belching clouds of foul smelling smoke is not a pleasant experience. Clean air should be everyone's worry, will your vehicle make the grade?

Two years ago an elderly woman ran into me with her personal go-cart. She hit me from behind, at full throttle as I sat on a chair in the back row of an outdoor concert. The force of the collision was enough to drive me and my chair under the chair of the man in front of me.

The Road Safety Toolkit provides free information on the causes and prevention of serious road crashes.

The majority of this issue features information on child restraints. It reinforces the idea that children secured in child restraints are safer that children secured by seat belts alone, describes what good belt fit looks like and how 60 seats rate for lap and shoulder belt fit.

Road safety resources from around the world may be useful to drivers in B.C. After all, the task of driving skillfully and responsibly is the same no matter where you are. This site contains something of interest for everyone, from the driver to enforcement to government. Take a look.

Welcome to the 2010 Olympics held at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada! The important question on everyone's mind is "how do we get around once we arrive (or if we live here)?" Significant planning has gone into a comprehensive traffic plan for the games that includes all methods of transit from Skytrain to bus to taxi to cyclists and even pedestrians!

If I could give all of you one gift this Christmas it would be a year's worth of safe driving. For those of us here in British Columbia that would mean more than one driver a day would not die, 81 people would not be injured and 69 property damage collisions would not occur. Imagine that.

Are you considering the purchase of a new vehicle in 2010? This issue of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Status Report examines rollover protection and eSafety systems in new vehicles. It also lists 27 top safety picks for the 2010 model year.