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NTSB Recommends Lowering Legal Limit to Reduce Drunken Driving Deaths

Federal accident investigators recommended Tuesday that states cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half, matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries.

2013/05/14

Transportation Officials Seeking Fresh Approach To Drunk Driving Deaths

Transportation safety officials are exploring ways to eliminate drunken driving deaths, which account for about a third of the nation’s more than 30,000 annual traffic fatalities — a share that has remained stubbornly unchanged since the late-1990s.

2013/05/14

File photo of the memorial service for the members of the Oklahoma State women's basketball team's coaching staff who died in a 2011 plane crash. (Brett Deering/Getty Images)

NTSB: Pilot Lost Control In OSU Plane Crash

Investigators found no evidence of mechanical failure to explain why a pilot lost control of a small plane that nosedived into an Arkansas ridge, killing the Oklahoma State women’s basketball coach and three others, according to a federal report.

2013/02/28

Deborah Hersman, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board / Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images

Planes In Virginia Collision Owned By FAA, NTSB Workers

NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said one of the agency’s employees owned the six-seat Beechcraft BE-25 in which two people were killed in the collision in Fauquier County.

2012/05/29

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Carmakers: Crackdown On Dashboard Devices Will Lead To Increased Distracted Driving

Drivers will switch from using distracting devices built into car dashboards to using even more distracting handheld devices unless the government addresses both issues at the same time, automakers warned Monday.

2012/03/12

File photo of crash. (credit: Larry W. Smith/Getty Images)

NTSB Wants States To Ban Drivers From Using Cell Phones

A 19-year-old pickup truck driver involved in a deadly highway pileup in Missouri last year sent or received 11 texts in the 11 minutes immediately before the accident, federal investigators said Tuesday.

2011/12/13