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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Sept. 25th notice to NHTSA Offices
Steven Crowell P.O. Box 303 Eastham , MA 02642
NHTSA Headquarters
NHTSA Administrator – David Strickland
NHTSA Deputy Administrator- Ronald Medford
Senior Associate Administrator – Brian
McGlaughlin
Associate Administrator – Research &
Program Development – Jefferey Michael
Impaired Driving & Occ. Prot. – Michael Brown
Safety Programs – Michael Geraci
Behavioral Safety Research – Richard Compton
Emergency Medical Services – Drew Dawson
Senior Associate Administrator – Vehicle Safety
– Daniel C. Smith
Associate Administrator – Rulemaking –
Christopher Bonati
Crashworthiness Standards – Lori Summers
Crashworthiness Standards – Lori Summers
Associate Administrator – Enforcement – Nancy
Lewis
Defects Investigation – Frank Borris
Vehicle Safety Compliance – Claude Harris
Associate Administrator – Vehicle Safety
Research – John Maddox
Vehicle Research & Testing Center – Roger
Saul
Vehicle Crashworthiness Research – Stephen
Ridella
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
West Building
Washington, DC 20590
Dear Mr.Strickland, et al,
I have been given a 30 year ‘run-around’ by theUSDOT -NHTSA.
I need help correcting the violations found in automobile interior partition performance.
Partitions are used in four major applications: Police Cruisers, Limousines, Utility Vans, and Taxicabs.
Washington, DC 20590
Dear Mr.Strickland, et al,
I have been given a 30 year ‘run-around’ by the
I need help correcting the violations found in automobile interior partition performance.
Partitions are used in four major applications: Police Cruisers, Limousines, Utility Vans, and Taxicabs.
The losses in cruisers
and taxis are astronomical. Officers rendered unconscious from post-cranial
partition impact have died because they were burned to death after high speed
rear-end collisions. Officers have seen 300 prisoners flee with the cruiser
despite the partition. Many officers have boasted about using the steel grid of
the partition to deliberately injure prisoners by slamming on the brake
needlessly.
The losses in taxicabs
are higher still, due to the greater human exposure and greater road exposure.
The NHTSA makes mention of “trading off passenger safety” for allegations of
“operator protection from assailants”. This is unacceptable. There is no
operator protection from assailants with partition use. Evaluation of the
partition in taxi robbery scenarios is not an area of USDOT
expertise. Trading off safety is illegal. Injuries, in cabs with partitions
(due to illegal partition hazards) are four times higher than injuries without
partitions.
The agency in violation
in NYC is the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission, for requiring, inspecting
and approving sub-standard, un-certified, dangerous partitions. In Boston and other cities
there are cab regulators that do the same.
The attached documents
show how inconsistent NHTSA has been as the injuries and deaths continue for 40
plus years. Randy Reid writes in 2012 that there are no safety laws for
partitions. He also says that cruisers and taxis are exempt from USDOT law. This is in contradiction with letters
from Frank Armstrong - Motor Vehicle Safety Compliance Enforcement Section
Director in 1984 and Jefferey Miller - USDOT
Chief Counsel in 1985.
The NYC T&LC claims
that the Nissan NV200 will be the first partition-equipped taxi to be crash
tested, with a partition installed. Nonsense! This will be the first time they
will be crash tested with dummies instead of live humans. Can you tell me who
is conducting the tests?
Please help me reconcile
this disparity and correct the numerous violations of taxi regulators, state
vehicle inspectors and partition manufacturers.
Thank you,
stvcrowell@yahoo.com YouTube videos can be seen with doctors comments about partition injury and death at YouTube channel “midnight9991” 508-348-4105
Saturday, September 22, 2012
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