Testing conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) this spring shows underride guards mounted to the side of a trailer provide similar safety benefits as rear-mounted guards.

Legislation reintroduced in both chambers of Congress would require side-underride guards on all new trailers. Also: FMCSA ...

We face a deadly threat on our highways. It's a decades-old debate over whether more should be done to protect you and your family. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a non-profit vehicle ...

For a while now, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has tested under-ride guards at the backs of semi-truck trailers to find which ones are effective at preventing grisly accidents. Now the ...

WASHINGTON — A proposed rule to mandate equipment aimed at preventing deaths in collisions between trucks and passenger cars — if such a rule is forthcoming at all — likely will not see action until ...

Well-built underride guard protective devices on truck trailers can prevent these types of collisions — which account for about one out of every five passenger vehicle occupant deaths in two-vehicle ...