(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured is Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook, one of the nation's leading experts on auto safety.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at Citizen Vox.

Pictured is Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook, one of the nation's leading experts on auto safety.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured is Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook, one of the nation's leading experts on auto safety.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured is Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook, one of the nation's leading experts on auto safety.

(Photo by Frank Rogers)

The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation heard testimony Wednesday, June 4 about the Bush administration's proposed roof crush rule. The proposal is barely an improvement over the existing standard and won't do much to save lives. Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook was among those asked to testify about the proposal.

Read more at Citizen Vox.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at Citizen Vox.

Pictured is Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook, one of the nation's leading experts on auto safety.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured are Don Friedman, founder of Center for Injury Research, and Clarence Ditlow, director of the Center for Auto Safety.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at Citizen Vox.

Pictured is Clarence Ditlow, director of the Center for Auto Safety.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at Citizen Vox..

Pictured is Don Friedman, founder of the Center for Injury Research.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured is Don Friedman, founder of the Center for Injury Research.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured is Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook, one of the nation's leading experts on auto safety.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured is Clarence Ditlow, director of the Center for Auto Safety.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured are Don Friedman, founder of Center for Injury Research, and Clarence Ditlow, director of the Center for Auto Safety.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured is Don Friedman, founder of the Center for Injury Research.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured is Don Friedman, founder of the Center for Injury Research.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured is Clarence Ditlow, director of the Center for Auto Safety.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured are Don Friedman, founder of Center for Injury Research, and Clarence Ditlow, director of the Center for Auto Safety.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured are Don Friedman, founder of Center for Injury Research, and Clarence Ditlow, director of the Center for Auto Safety.

(Photo by Frank Rogers)

The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation heard testimony Wednesday, June 4 about the Bush administration's proposed roof crush rule. The proposal is barely an improvement over the existing standard and won't do much to save lives. Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook was among those asked to testify about the proposal.

Pictured is rollover crash victim David Garcia.

Read more at Citizen Vox.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured is Don Friedman, founder of the Center for Injury Research.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at Citizen Vox.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured is Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook, one of the nation's leading experts on auto safety.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured are Don Friedman, founder of Center for Injury Research, and Clarence Ditlow, director of the Center for Auto Safety.

(Photo by Joe Newman)

Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research called on the federal government to improve its rollover safety standard for vehicles. The groups held a news conference at the George Washington University to show how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "rollover" test is inadequate and outdated and is contributing to many of the 10,800 deaths a year in rollover crashes.

Learn more at citizenvox.org/2008/09/09/evidence-is-in-will-federal-aut....

Pictured are Don Friedman, founder of Center for Injury Research, and Clarence Ditlow, director of the Center for Auto Safety.

(Photo by Frank Rogers)

The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation heard testimony Wednesday, June 4 about the Bush administration's proposed roof crush rule. The proposal is barely an improvement over the existing standard and won't do much to save lives. Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook was among those asked to testify about the proposal.

Pictured is Jackie Gillan vice president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety.

Read more at Citizen Vox.

In the "America on the Move" exhibition in the American History Museum, an auto safety section features Ralph Nader's "Unsafe At Any Speed." The work and the congresional hearings that followed contributed to national legislation regarding safety standards in motor vehicles.

(Photo by Bridgette Blair)

The trucking industry has been relentless in its push to put larger trucks on the road. Americans have paid dearly for these super-sized tractor-trailers, both in lives lost in crashes and dollars spent to repair the structural toll on our roads and bridges. Now, the industry is lobbying for even longer and heavier trucks. Several safety groups, including Public Citizen, held a news conference May 14 to ask Congress to put the personal safety of the motoring public above the pursuit of trucking industry profits.

Read more at Citizen Vox.

(Photo by Bridgette Blair)

The trucking industry has been relentless in its push to put larger trucks on the road. Americans have paid dearly for these super-sized tractor-trailers, both in lives lost in crashes and dollars spent to repair the structural toll on our roads and bridges. Now, the industry is lobbying for even longer and heavier trucks. Several safety groups, including Public Citizen, held a news conference May 14 to ask Congress to put the personal safety of the motoring public above the pursuit of trucking industry profits.

Read more at Citizen Vox.

(Photo by Bridgette Blair)

The trucking industry has been relentless in its push to put larger trucks on the road. Americans have paid dearly for these super-sized tractor-trailers, both in lives lost in crashes and dollars spent to repair the structural toll on our roads and bridges. Now, the industry is lobbying for even longer and heavier trucks. Several safety groups, including Public Citizen, held a news conference May 14 to ask Congress to put the personal safety of the motoring public above the pursuit of trucking industry profits.

Read more at Citizen Vox.

(Photo by Bridgette Blair)

The trucking industry has been relentless in its push to put larger trucks on the road. Americans have paid dearly for these super-sized tractor-trailers, both in lives lost in crashes and dollars spent to repair the structural toll on our roads and bridges. Now, the industry is lobbying for even longer and heavier trucks. Several safety groups, including Public Citizen, held a news conference May 14 to ask Congress to put the personal safety of the motoring public above the pursuit of trucking industry profits.

Pictured is Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen.

Read more at Citizen Vox.