Louis Lombardo runs a web site named "Care for Crash Victims." This is a project of a small business public benefit enterprise, Louis V. Lombardo, LLC. The mission is to improve care for crash victims before, during, and after a crash. Lou believes we are all crash victims -- past, present, and future -- as individuals, families, friends and society. Everyone is impacted by crashes as consumers, insurance premium payers, and taxpayers.
“If the person dies, the companies face a cost of possibly $5 million if they lose. But, if the person lives with serious injuries, the company faces the possibility of $25 million if they lose. So, it is cheaper if they die.”
The following year NHTSA crash tested the 1981 Honda Civic. Honda had made several safety modifications beginning with the 1981 Civic model that resulted in passing the crash tests in what was the new NCAP Program.
Two Moms, who lost daughters due to truck underride, organized public crash tests of cars into truck trailers – with and without lifesaving underride guards – to demonstrate need for passage of federal STOP Underrides! legislation…