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6 unusual facts about National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Emergency medical responder levels by U.S. state

Even though primary management and regulation of prehospital providers is at the state level, the federal government does have minimum requirements for EMTs, Advanced EMTs and Paramedics set through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Field triage

In 2005, with financial support from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), CDC convened a series of meetings of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage (the Panel) to guide the 2006 revision of the Decision Scheme.

GM Instrument Cluster Settlement

As early as 2005, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had received complaints concerning erratic speedometer and gauge readings from numerous makes and models of GM vehicles.

Terrafugia Transition

On November 16, 2010 the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published Terrafugia's petition for a temporary, three-year hardship exemption from four FMVSS standards in the Transition.

Tombras Group

Tombras was asked to develop a campaign on the dangers of distracted driving for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's core mission is to reduce alcohol-related fatalities on U.S. highways, which total nearly 11,000 each year.


Gregory R. Dahlberg

In 1981, he joined the staff of the United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, a subcommittee of the United States House Committee on Appropriations; there, he worked on the budgets of the Federal Highway Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Amtrak, Conrail, and the United States Coast Guard.

Williamson v. Mazda

, 562 U.S. (2011), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, in which the Court unanimously held that Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208, promulgated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, does not federally preempt state tort lawsuits against auto manufacturers from injuries caused by a defective lack of certain types of seat belts.


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