National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

Jurisdiction: United States

nhtsa.gov

The United States federal agency responsible for motor vehicle safety, which issues the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and publishes recalls for motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment. A street-legal low-speed vehicle is a motor vehicle under FMVSS No. 500, so its recalls are issued here rather than by the Consumer Product Safety Commission — while a golf car that is not an LSV remains a consumer product.

We publish 3 notices from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The notices listed below span December 14, 2012 to June 10, 2026. That is what we hold, not the range of what the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has published.

NHTSA is the authority that publishes recalls for a street-legal cart. Their own search is complete and this catalogue's is not — use theirs rather than treating an absence here as an answer.

Check the source yourself

Anything absent from this site is absent from our records, which is not the same as absent from the regulator’s. Search the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration directly:

nhtsa.gov/recalls

Using this regulator’s data

Licence: No licence instrument. NHTSA's own Terms of Use declare the material public information that may be distributed or copied; 17 U.S.C. § 105(a) is the statute behind that, quoted below from the U.S. Code itself rather than asserted
Required attribution: Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Images: NHTSA's Image Library states no copyright, usage or accreditation requirements on its own images, but warns that material on the site may contain third-party content used under licence, and that a user is responsible for checking a specific use against the original owner's requirements. Do not assume every image on nhtsa.gov is reusable.
What their terms permit: Reproducing their words: yesEditing them: yesCommercial use: yesTheir logo: restricted
Their terms: nhtsa.gov/about-nhtsa/terms-use
Terms last read: September 23, 2026

the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration allow their material to be reused on the terms named above, and this catalogue uses it on those terms: their words are attributed to them, our own summaries are marked as ours, and their notice's address is printed on every page that quotes them. No logo or image of theirs is used anywhere on this site.

The operative sentence is NHTSA's own — its Terms of Use, under OWNERSHIP: "Information presented on this web site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied." That page does not mention copyright law. Separately, 17 U.S.C. § 105(a) states: "Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise" (govinfo.gov, USCODE-2023-title17-chap1-sec105). The agency's permission and the statute behind it are cited separately. The same Terms of Use page disclaims endorsement — reference to any commercial product or firm name "does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by NHTSA/DOT" — so NHTSA's seal is treated as restricted rather than assumed reusable, as the CPSC seal is.

This page indexes recalls and safety alerts published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, taken from its own official source. It is not the regulator’s own site; their address is printed above and their own search is linked, and theirs is the authoritative record.

Recalls in our database

Every notice we publish from the United States

Sources

Cited address
Source: nhtsa.gov