Safer and Sounder: Newer car designs reduce collision female fatalities to 2.5 percent, says NHTSA study
Toronto, Ontario – A new NHTSA report suggests that improvements in vehicle safety standards and safety equipment has reduced the disparity between female and male fatalities during collisions from 18.3 percent to 6.3 percent, comparing model years 1960-2009 to 2010-2020. Notably, vehicles with model years 2015-2020 had the lowest difference at 2.9 percent. According to […]
At War with Nature: Fence to be erected along B.C.’s Highway 3 to mitigate wildlife collisions
Cranbrook, British Columbia — For autobody repair facilities in British Columbia’s East Kootenays, humanity and nature often find themselves at a crossroads—unfortunately, sometimes it is a literal crossroads where the human ends up in a nasty car wreck and an innocent animal is left injured. Steven Johnson, an estimator at Cranbrook, B.C.’s Rocky Mountain Collision […]
Can You Believe This?! August 19, 2022
Toronto, Ontario — This week, bear witness to an amateur music video gone horribly wrong; discover the wackiest Club Car your course has to offer; spot some chop shop work at your local Timmie’s and much, much more—all in Collision Repair mag’s Can You Believe This?!
Real Life, But in HD: Ford unveils headlight tech that visually projects road information, speed limits
Toronto, Ontario — Ford is imagining a new driving experience where one never has to take their eyes off the road thanks to a new piece of technology that can project directions, speed limits and weather conditions onto the road through a vehicle’s headlights. Dubbed “high-resolution headlights,” the legacy automaker unveiled the new tech in […]
A Headline on Headliners: More than quarter million Kia Optimas recalled in U.S. for adhesive issue
Toronto, Ontario — Body technicians would do well to keep an eye out the next time a 2012 or 2013 Kia Optima rolls into the shop, as a defect found in about 258,000 of the brand’s U.S.-made models could put drivers in even more danger, should they find themselves in a collision. More than one-quarter […]
A New Home for Trades: Conestoga College to open nation’s largest trades training facility in Cambridge, Ont.
Cambridge, Ontario — A former hub of southern Ontario’s tech industry is due for a makeover to fit modern times, as representatives from Conestoga College announced on Monday that a building formerly owned by BlackBerry will be the new site of the school’s skilled trades campus. With these plans to retrofit the approximately 31,123 sq.-m. […]
Playing with Fire: Welding fires spark need for improved safety precautions
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island — The fire that tore through a Charlottetown, PEI repair facility in late April has since been linked to welding work that was being done at the time. What started as routine repairs in the shop’s garage quickly turned into an inferno that caused the roof of Mechanical Performance Auto Service […]
GO GO GO: Metrolinx warns of impatient drivers with shocking safety PSA
Toronto, Ontario – Sometimes, we all make difficult decisions. We reach a fork in the road; a turning point meets us. A watershed moment arises, and the decision reaches critical mass. Unfortunately, for one driver, their decision resulted in ending up in front of a moving train; the driver was literally at a crossroads in […]
Bad Bolts: Tesla recalls 2,800 Model 3s, Ys for faulty suspension bolt
Toronto, Ontario — Nearly 300 Canadian Teslas are about to be due for inspection as the OEM announced that it will be recalling more than 2,800 Model 3 and Y vehicles due to faulty front suspension bolts. The recall affects certain 2019, 2020, and 2021 Model 3s; and 2020 and 2021 Model Ys. The recall […]
A Cut Above: Firefighters compete in annual Auto-Ex competition at Standard Auto Wreckers
Scarborough, Ontario — It may have been one of October’s chilliest mornings yet, but that did nothing to dampen the vigour of Markham, Ont. and Oakville, Ont.’s firefighter crews, who competed in the annual Auto-Ex Competition at Standard Auto Wreckers last Friday, October 22. David Gold, the owner of Standard Auto Wreckers, was generous enough […]
