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WASHINGTON (AP) - Ten thousand fatal automobile crashes a year, nearly one-third of all such accidents, could be prevented if more vehicles were equipped with technology that helps to keep them from rolling over, the insurance industry said Tuesday.
A study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said the technology, electronic stability control, reduced the risk of single-vehicle rollovers involving sport utility vehicles by 80 percent, and 77 percent for passenger cars.
Researchers said it reduced the risk of fatal crashes by 43 percent. If all vehicles had stability control it could prevent as many as 10,000 of the 34,000 fatal crashes on the nation's highways each year, they estimated.
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