national highway traffic safety administration

• Maryland

Safe Carroll: The dangers of technology

• Maryland

Keep kids safe in cars [Editorial]

• Howard County

Review: Second-generation Hyundai Genesis makes up for last model's shortfalls

Redesigned for 2015, this second-generation Genesis looks, feels and drives like a luxury car should: distinctive, roomy, comfortable, quiet, powerful and loaded with safety and infotainment features. Yet it¿s priced thousands less than similarly equipped competitors.

• Opinion

Failing grades for school bus safety [Editorial]

Schools reopen this week but danger looms if motorists continue to illegally pass stopped buses

• Maryland

Watch for buses on roads [Editorial]

• Vehicles

Debate over web-connected cars, driver privacy headed to Maryland

As today's computer-powered vehicles become increasingly connected to drivers and their lives and capable of transmitting data to the outside world, civil liberties organizations and driver advocacy groups have begun raising concerns with regulators, legislators and industry leaders.

• Maryland

Hot cars & kids don't mix [Editorial]

• Maryland

GM issues 3 more recalls covering 474,000 vehicles

DETROIT (AP) ¿ General Motors extended its record-breaking string of safety problems, announcing Friday three more recalls, including a large one involving its top-selling vehicle.

• Highway and Road Transportation

Five questions for Michael Pecht, reliability detective

Michael Pecht feels like Sherlock Holmes sometimes, and not just because he plays violin on the side. He runs a 120-person engineering team at the University of Maryland where he and others get to figure out why something is going wrong — from windshield wipers to highly technical parts.

• Opinion

Corporate wrongdoers must be prosecuted as a deterrent [Commentary]

The only way to stop lawbreaking at General Motors or any other big corporation is to prosecute the people who break the law.

• Maryland

Safe Carroll: Never leave your child alone in the car

• Maryland

Accident costs hit home [Editorial]

• Opinion

Dancing around DUIs [Editorial]

Elect legislators willing to mandate life-saving ignition interlock for all convicted of drunk driving in Maryland and save countless lives

• Opinion

Let's save our kids from an early grave [Letter]

Maryland needs a nonprofit to devote itself to saving young people from fatal car crashes

• Maryland

Editorial: Avoid driving drowsy

• Opinion

Sixty-five (still) saves lives [Editorial]

Efforts to raise Maryland's speed limit to 70 mph ignore the brutal reality of accident deaths

• Maryland

Safe Carroll: Keep winter driving tips in mind

• Harford

Harford Sheriff's Office to conduct auto theft awareness patrols

The Harford County Sheriff's is increasing its efforts to prevent people from leaving their cars running, unattended and unlocked in an effort to prevent vehicle and related thefts.

• Features

Keeping up with baby-product recalls

Keeping up with baby-product recalls

• Harford

Four arrested during Harford weekend DUI checkpoint

The Harford County Sheriff's Office arrested four people for drinking and driving, or for having drugs, during a recent sobriety checkpoint at Route 152 near Stockton Road overnight between Saturday and Sunday.

• Agriculture

Animal skeletons, high-priced vehicle seized at port

Federal agents intercepted

• Colleges and Universities

Rider School helps motorcycle enthusiasts, beginners tackle the open road

Elaine Ortiz had long entertained the idea of learning to ride a motorcycle, but the 5 feet tall, the Columbia resident sits on the back of her boyfriend's Ducati 900 and discovers she comes up a bit short.

• Harford

Sheriff urges safety while driving to prevent crashes [Letter]

The Harford County Traffic Task Force was formed approximately two years ago and is comprised of officers from each agency within the county- the Harford County Sheriff's Office, Maryland State Police Bel Air Barrack, Maryland State Police JFK Barrack, Aberdeen PD, Bel Air PD, and Havre de Grace PD

• Manufacturing and Engineering

AAA issues warning about leaving children in hot cars

AAA Mid-Atlantic today released a list of safety tips to help parents and care givers remember to never leave a child unattended in a car. Their advice comes on the heels of the heartbreaking death on Friday of a 16-month-old Baltimore County girl.

• Health

Adaptation of Xbox Kinect device could prevent common summer tragedy

Starting around this time of year, dozens of children across the country die after being forgotten sweltering inside of cars each summer. A group of Johns Hopkins University students may have found a way to ensure parents remember even a silently sleeping baby.

• Latest

State Police safety dragnet in Baltimore takes 114 trucks off the road

One of every five trucks pulled over in Baltimore by State Police inspectors on the first day of a multi-day sweep this week was taken out of service for safety defects.

• Harford

St. Patrick's Day revelers made 'responsible choices,' police say

Harford County law enforcement officials reported a pretty quiet St. Patrick's Day weekend for 2013, although a few arrests were made around the county.

• Crime

Maryland court considers liability of bars in drunken-driving crashes

Four and a half years after a crash on I-270 in Gaithersburg, the family that lost a child could change Maryland law to allow victims of drunk-driving crashes and their families to sue bars and restaurants if their drunk-driving patrons cause deaths and injuries.

• Obituaries

William C. Brubaker, founding Colts band member

William Charles Brubaker, a retired aeronautical engineer who was a founding trombone player in the Baltimore Colts Marching Band, died at Sinai Hospital Feb. 12 of complications of injuries he suffered near his Lutherville home. Family members said he had been struck by a vehicle while walking last year. He was 91.

• Opinion

Need for speed?

The hundreds of speeding tickets issued by speed cameras suggest local school systems have failed to properly monitor school bus drivers

• Crime

New state laws on car seats, chemotherapy coverage begin

A raft of new state laws take effect Monday. Children under 8-years-old will be required to sit in a booster seat or child seat until they reach a certain height, and morticians will have to follow stricter rules under legislation enacted by the General Assembly earlier this year.

• Latest

State police to target truckers parked on I-83

State troopers on Friday will begin a new enforcement campaign targeting truckers and other commercial vehicle drivers who illegally park along Interstate 83 in Baltimore County, according to the Maryland State Police.

• Health

Number of children dying in hot cars remains a problem

Pediatrician warns of dangers and what can happen to kids

• Walmart

Letter: Traffic a major concern if super Walmart opens at Plumtree Road

Approving a Walmart Super Center at Route 924 and Plumtree Road would be an example of the poorest planning imaginable.

• Latest

State Police run truck-safety dragnet at FedEx Field

State Police and other Maryland law enforcement agencies conducted a truck safety dragnet, pulling hundreds of tractor-trailers off the Capital Beltway for inspection in a parking lot at FedEx Field.

• Features

Over-do it at Cinco de Mayo? Hitch a free ride home

AAA, MVA and Yellow Cab offering free taxis this weekend.

• Disasters and Accidents

Harford highway deaths took huge spike in February

February saw spike in fatalities

• Latest

Bikers, others want to know age of tires

A motorcycle rights group came to Annapolis to call on the General Assembly to pass a bill that would require Maryland tire dealers to inform consumers of research showing that tires deteriorate with age and that a federal agency recommends that they be replaced after six years even if the tread depth is adequate.

• Road Transportation

The Interview: Steve DiBiagio, PHH Arval's senior vice president of strategic alliances

The Baltimore Sun recently spoke with Steve DiBiagio, PHH's senior vice president of strategic alliances, about distracted driving and the company's new technology.

• Opinion

A Super weekend to drink responsibly

Super Bowl party-goers should drink responsibly — and arrange for someone else to drive

• Readers Respond

Howard judge's DUI get-out-of-jail free card

Release of drunk driver over allegation of police quotas was a mistake

• Howard County

Drunk-driving quota case may lead to similar efforts elsewhere

A Howard County judge's decision to throw out drunken-driving charges and rule that they were tied to illegal citation quotas may have ramifications beyond Thursday's case.

• Opinion

The purpose of speed cameras

Speed cameras may be hated by some but they've made Maryland's highway construction zones safer

• Opinion

Losses worse than 9/11 attacks

The losses of Sept. 11 are dwarfed by the number of Americans who have died in highway crashes yet U.S. continues to invest heavily in foreign oil

• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Open Arms Child Development Center welcomes new staff members

South Laurel: Open Arms Child Development Center welcomes new director and assistant director

• Opinion

Bigger trucks spell big trouble on Maryland's roads

AAA Mid-Atlantic says Congress should resist lobbying efforts, protect state's drivers and roads by saying no to huge new vehicles