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Volume 45, Issue 5 of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Status Report is now available for download. This issue covers the following topics:

• Low-speed vehicles and minitrucks are showing up on more public roads, and new crash tests illustrate the risk
• Crash avoidance technologies for passenger vehicles could prevent or mitigate about 1 of every 3 fatal crashes
• Large trucks will benefit from crash avoidance technology Ejection is a problem when LSVs crash because doors are optional and occupants don't always use safety belts

Link:

Status Report, May 20, 2010 (PDF)