According to statistics provided by Robert Bosch GmbH (www.bosch.com), skidding is the cause of one quarter of all accidents. They also show that 60% of all accidents with fatal injuries happen through side crashes caused mainly by skidding.
A NHTSA (U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) study also showed that passenger cars that had been fitted with ESP as standard equipment from 1997 to 2002 had, on average, 35% fewer driving accidents than for the same vehicle models before the standard fitment of ESP, with the number of fatal driving accidents reduced by 30%.
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