Government Organizations
Consumer Product Safety Commission is an independent federal regulatory agency created to protect the public against unreasonable risks of injuries and deaths associated with consumer products.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA is responsible for reducing deaths and injuries resulting from motor vehicle crashes. It sets and enforces safety performance standards for motor vehicle. It also investigates safety defects in motor vehicles and researches driver behavior and traffic safety.

National Transportation Safety Board is an independent federal agency that investigates aviation, railroad, highway, marine, and pipeline accidents.

Product Evaluation and Safety Organizations
Center for AutoSafety This site was created by Consumers Union and Ralph Nader to provide consumers a voice for auto safety and quality in our Capitol. It provides information dealing with auto-defects.

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety This site, sponsored by most of the automobile insurance companies, provides research and collects loss data on automobile crashes. Its research is on making automobiles safer. It also provides information on how each automobile performed in crash and safety tests.

Consumer Reports tests, evaluates, and compares a broad range of products from automobiles to household appliances.

Professional Organizations
Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys KATA is the organization of attorneys who represent people who have been victims of accidents, defective products and professional negligence.

Association of Trial Lawyers of America ALTA is the organization of attorneys whose mission is to seek justice for all, preserve the constitutional right to trial by jury, and to prevent injuries.

Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine is a professional multidisciplinary organization dedicated to motor vehicle crash injury prevention and control.

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) is an organization of engineers, business executives and educators who share information dealing with engineering in motor vehicles.

Trial Lawyers for Public Justice is a national public interest law firm that pursues precedent-setting and socially significant litigation through the volunteer work of trial lawyers throughout the world.

Automotive Industry News
Just-auto.com is the leading website for the latest news from the automotive industry.

Stragetic Safety News Provides research, investigation, analysis and education on safety issues, primarily motor vehicle issues. Their experience is in safety policy and regulation, injury biomechanics, defects and liability.

The Safety Forum is sponsored by Ralph Hoar & Associates to distribute research information on motor vehicle crashes, defective products, and hazardous practices.

The Law and Legal Research
Cornell Law This site is sponsored by Cornell Law School. It provides access to information on all areas of the law including both state and federal court opinions, statutes, court rules and administrative law, including opinions of the US Supreme Court.

Lawyer's Weekly

National Law Journal

Child Safety
National SAFE KIDS Campaign is the first national organization dedicated solely to the prevention of unintentional childhood injury-the number one killer of children 14 years old and younger. This site has information on car seats, lead paint, sports injuries, poison, etc. A must site for families with children.

Safety Belts Safe USA is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to child passenger safety. Its mission is to help reduce the number of serious and fatal traffic injuries suffered by children by promoting the correct, consistent use of safety seats and seat belts. This is a must site for families with children.