Clarence M. Ditlow, III, one of the most influential and effective consumer activists of the past five decades, died Thursday in Washington, D.C., of colon cancer. He was 72. Ditlow was the longtime ...

Clarence Ditlow, who for more than four decades was the nation’s top auto safety advocate, died Thursday after a long battle with cancer. He was 72. Known as a tireless watchdog, Ditlow called out ...

Auto safety crusader Clarence Ditlow has died. For decades, he headed the Washington-based Center for Auto Safety, a group that exposed some of the most dangerous safety defects in cars and kept the ...

Clarence Ditlow, a tireless consumer advocate who spent a lifetime trying to make cars safer, died on Thursday. He was 72. Ditlow was known for relentlessly pushing automakers and the government to ...

Clarence Ditlow, the executive director for the Center of Auto Safety in Washington, who spent decades protecting consumers by fighting for safer vehicles and automaker accountability, died Thursday ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Clarence M. Ditlow III, the executive director of the Center for Auto Safety whose work over four decades forced the auto industry to make important safety and consumer improvements, ...

Clarence Ditlow had law degrees from Georgetown University and Harvard, but his pedigree as a college wrestler also helped him clinch the job that made him the leading scourge of U.S. auto makers. In ...

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