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Following are a few articles from last month.

AAA Presents Solutions to Reducing Older Driver Crashes by Focusing on Improving Driver, Vehicle and Road Safety AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety will release a new study that analyzes 25 years of police-level crash data from nearly 4 million injury crashes. The study answers the questions: Does your age really increase the likelihood of dying in a crash? By how much and at what ages? How is driver age related to fragility, illness, perceptual lapses and left-turn crashes? Read the full article

U.S. to retest Ford Explorer SUVs for rollovers Safety regulators delayed the release of new rollover risk data for three popular selling 2004 Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F - News) Explorer sport utility models, while a fourth received low marks. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it had problems analyzing data for the Explorers, as well as information on the Ford Mercury Mountaineer SUV, which were included in the government's first-ever road test for measuring rollover propensity. The agency planned to retest the Ford SUVs. No date was set. The previous tests were completed over the past six months and combined with other factors, like design characteristics. "There are questions and things have to be studied further," said safety agency spokesman Tim Hurd. The company said its vehicles were safe and criticized the government's rollover test as unreflective of real world conditions. Ratings on the Explorer are closely watched because of the vehicle's popularity and the troubled history over SUVs and rollover crashes. Read the full article

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