The winning vehicles meet updated criteria that prioritize the protection of pedestrians in addition to vehicle occupants. The highest award, Top Safety Pick+, goes to models that come exclusively with good or acceptable headlights.
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Headlight choices have improved since IIHS began rating them, but good ones usually cost extra.
Pedestrian fatalities on U.S. interstates and other freeways rose 60 percent from 2009 to 2018. Most of those killed were trying to cross the freeway in urban areas.
The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), IIHS and The National Road Safety Foundation, Inc. (NRSF) invite state agencies to submit proposals for grant funding to develop, implement and evaluate a speed management pilot program in a community within their state. Application deadline: March 1, 2020.
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