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Transportation Safety
Introduction
 
Car crash testing - passenger car crashing into wall.
 
The highest priority of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is to “promote public health and safety by working toward the elimination of transportation-related deaths, injuries, and property damage” [1]. The United States has made much progress in reducing the number of transportation-related deaths, but crashes and incidents involving transportation vehicles, vessels, aircraft, and pipelines still claimed nearly 44,000 lives and injured more than 3 million people in 1999. Transportation accidents are the seventh single leading cause of death in the United States (figure 1). However, motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for people between 6 and 27 years of age.