While research indicates that SUVs may not be a major threat to occupants of smaller vehicles, pickups represent an outsized danger and weight imbalance may be the key factor.

Federal regulators have opened a preliminary investigation into Nissan vehicles after reports of their automatic emergency braking systems engaging without warning or obstruction.

Federal regulators are poised to relax rules governing the hours truck drivers can spend behind the wheel due to concerns about safety.

NHTSA is sponsoring Child Passenger Safety Week from September 15-21.

Speeding is the riskiest kind of aggressive driving, according to data examined by the University of Waterloo.

A new survey found that almost all drivers admitted to dangerous driving behaviors within the past year.

Millions of Americans will kick off summer road trips this weekend. But an auto safety expert from The Auto Professor says many top-rated cars are not as safe as people think they are.

Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai on Wednesday delayed plans to soon begin a comprehensive review of a valuable band of spectrum reserved for vehicles to communicate with one another.

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expanding a probe into potentially defective air bags to 12.3 million vehicles and upgrading it to an engineering analysis.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Federal Railroad Administration have relaunched a $5.6 million safety awareness campaign, urging U.S. drivers to take caution at railway crossings.