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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced today that by 2013, all passenger vehicles sold in the U.S. will be required to provide head protection in side-impact crashes.

The regulation comes after three years of research, which found that about 29-percent, or 9,200 people, were killed in crashes resulting from side impacts. However, the auto industry as a whole has agreed to install side airbags on all vehicles by September 2009.

NHTSA's full press release is available after the jump.

[Source; NHTSA]

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