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The Big Nine: Stanford, Crocker, Burbank, Hoover, Rickenbacker, Carnegie, Trump and Tweed, have agreed on standards to limit the devastation in automobile vs. truck accidents. The companies came to some sort of consensus that the beams they're installing on trucks to prevent cars from sliding underneath would meet some undisclosed new strength test by 2009. They also decided on new crash tests to ensure said beams work as they're intended.
Carmakers OK crash standards [Detroit Free Press]
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Minivans Receive Poor Crash-Test Ratings for Neck Injury [Internal]
