Tort liability implications of small car incompatibility with highway design.

Author(s)
Stapleton, J.J.
Year
Abstract

Incompatibility between the small car and certain aspects of highway design is a factor in the toll of highway deaths and injuries. Tort liability implications are significant because potential liability is a factor in inducing greater compliance with safety standards, and, thus, in reducing highway deaths and injuries. Manufacturers are held to a standard of reasonable care in design to provide a reasonably safe vehicle, taking into consideration the environment in which it is used.

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Library number
B 18937 (In: B 18906 [electronic version only]) /82/ IRRD 256332
Source

In: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine AAAM, Rochester, New York, October 7-9, 1980, p. 361-369, 20 ref.

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