Auto Owners Safer, Less Informed as Safety Boss Moves On

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Jeffrey Runge, the administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is leaving for a new job as chief medical officer at Homeland Security. Auto industry officials credit him with a series of measures to make driving safer, but a number of consumer groups fault him for withholding critical safety information, due for release in the fall of 2004, from the public. (7/15/05)