Passengers who wore seat belts in back seats were often more seriously injured than belted front-seat passengers, and in some cases were killed in crashes that should have be survivable if better ...

It remains the conventional wisdom that sitting in the back of a vehicle is safer than sitting in the front, especially for passengers in the "death seat," as the spot next to the driver used to be ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In a full car, some poor soul is relegated to the middle of the back seat, the least desirable, most uncomfortable, most "un-cool" spot in the vehicle. It also happens to be the ...

Sitting in the back seat? You could be at more risk of dying or suffering serious injury in a head-on collision than someone sitting in the front. That counterintuitive finding comes from a study ...

According to North Carolina law, children less than age 5 and less than 40 pounds must be in the back seat in vehicles with active passenger-side front airbags. However, the recommendation is to keep ...

Given the chance to pick your seat, you’ll be more likely to survive a car crash if you're riding up front, according to a new study. While car manufacturers have done a lot to improve the safety of ...