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VIDEO from Medialink and General Motors: State-of-the-Art Testing Facility Opens to Study Deadly Rollover Crashes

NEW YORK, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Rollovers account for only one in 50 car crashes each year, but they claim nearly four of every ten lives lost on the nation's highways -- 10,000 fatalities a year. They are also responsible for another 200,000 injuries, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

(See video at: http://media.medialink.com/WebNR.aspx?story=32830)

Automotive safety experts at a new $10 million rollover crash testing facility near Detroit will study ways to keep occupants from being ejected in rollover crashes and develop air bag sensors to better protect occupants in a rollover.

General Motors, which opened the facility on December 5, is the first automaker to integrate in-house testing for the infrequent, but often deadly rollover crashes.

Registered journalists can access video, audio, text, graphics and photos for free and unrestricted use at http://media.medialink.com.

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