Throwback Thursday: Cars made safer
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to July 1970 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when motor insurers were set to get a boost by plans to make cars safer.
9 July 1970: Cars made saferThe US hoped to enlist the help of Britain and other European countries in a campaign to produce a really safe motor car, Insurance Post reported.
Dr Robert Brenner, former
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