Vehicle Safety Organizations

  Society of Automotive Engineers

The Society of Automotive Engineers is your one-stop resource for technical information and expertise used in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space.

  NHTSA: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

NHTSA is responsible for reducing deaths, injuries and economic losses from motor vehicle crashes. The detailed site offers data on its task of setting and enforcing motor-vehicle safety performance standards.

  U.S. Department of State Travel Warnings

  AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety

The highly regarded foundation sponsors research that identifies critical traffic safety problems, searches for underlying causes and advocates possible solutions. The results are posted here.

  Advocates for Highway & Auto Safety

News about the alliance of consumer, health and safety groups, and insurance companies and agents working to encourage adoption of federal and state laws, policies, and programs that save lives and reduce injuries.

  Department of Transportation, U.S.A.

The agency's mandate is broad and its areas of concern are many. But it is a major initiator of highway safety research and a vast repository of data on that topic.

  National Crash Analysis Center

The National Crash Analysis Center is a federally funded research center concentrating in vehicle crash worthiness research.

  National Safety Council

Nonprofit, non-governmental, international public service organization that works to improve the safety, health and environmental well-being of all people. The site's sections on vehicle safety are quite good.