Sport Utility Vehicles: Traffic Safety Tips

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Sport utility vehicles
  • Traffic safety
  • Center of gravity
  • Rollover crashes
  • Maneuvering
  • Handling characteristics
  • Traffic crashes
  • Vehicle safety
  • SUV
  • risk
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  HS-042 272
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00743766
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Highway Safety
• Description:
  This fact sheet, NHTSA Facts: Summer 1996, describe traffic safety tips for driving sport utility vehicles. Because sport utility vehicles have a higher center of gravity, making them more top heavy than cars, they handle and maneuver differently than automobiles. The risk of rollovers is greater in sport utility vehicles than in most passenger cars. Sharp turns and abrupt maneuvers may cause the sport utility vehicle to go out of control, or to rollover. Manufacturers are required to place an advisory sticker on the dashboard of each sport utility vehicle which warns the driver that the vehicle handles differently than a passenger car.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/13738/dot_13738_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 178.43 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:45a013f0d1c60a1331744f1d3f721b134f11692517594a7f87e360ff66bee095