virsight hearing - Motor Vehicle Hazard Archive Project

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Notice hereitfi.'f""."*o.
On the video, there is no front 8€at Now' possibly
-.ftifa
fri'tfr" ""a dehnitely for an adult, what is the effect of the
oersorr hitting the back of the front seat l
*i\i;.
K;";-" It would probably bt to aggruvatt .
the excursion
*i."" "rt *"tfa now have'the heid impacting somelhing Best that
iir" iJ"J i-E"t nothing. Nonetheless, vou siill have., ir a forward
;;;"il, i;";;;$ts forwird movement of the seat and the people in
iir" fio"t so that excursion continues and we know from- real life
"*""' tftuf-l"jt.ies to the lower abdominal area and the. lower
.p"rril "ir.i ^i'" .o-ini out ofjust this kind ol performance in real
crasnes. "';;;-.
we see this tremendous amount of force on the waist and
the - dummv is flung lbrward all the way
i\4;. c;;;;. io in.*". a little bit more specificallv' in terms of
ttt"^ir""J injury issue, the presence of lhose seat backs would undoubtedly
ca,r"e "tt increase risk of head injury- if .the
child or
iIi*" #".* to "trike the rear seat back, because they're not really
i't$T1i"rtt".
Here we're seeing the counterpart child wearing the
fr"irfr""la"i belt and you ""e het" that the forces are distributed
;;id;;tG;; iiirom the side in a moment, the fo-rces are distributiJ-u"tv
"u""tv across the upper torso -and the lo-wer part of the
iia" "i J * i' ."v. t hu u"t..t.l' tn"usured pounds of loading on the
l"n6elt *ete reduced by 60 percent if you want to put rt that way
irrthis * crash for the child.
s. ift!: *i. "i i":ury would have been substantially rq-d.uq€d This
*iiin"'in" i*] "i6* itt"t I will show vou and tben we'll.show the
'ih;
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tup* irn" longer, but-l m going to cut it.off here
ili"r"i.'i tiii[ *6 -rtt"" -"ai our point Again, the shoulder belt
;;;; ;;;;l"g ui"t , rt"'. been niielv restrained across his bodv-'
iil"il";;ii';;;-v ii'' ttt" rear-all- right-vou .can . cut it off'
rf"r*. i-*.tt to shtw you now' in concluiion. a brief piece of tape
irom Government footage' a test series' an extenslve test senes run
il;it; ii;i;;;f Hien;iv Traffic Safeti Administration in Novem-
;:. ili.;lt;i omFluttv'."t"*ed In this test the Government has
looked '-ih? at lai and lap/shoulder belt comParisons.'
clt"i"-""ttJ report has not been issued' but. we.have been
a*" . a.tfi of the reirort. Ttte Government should submit it for
?fr""i"J".J "i trt"t" h"uiit g". As our tests showed, these te,sts show
;;;;il;"lv i;.in^J tiuai"g' on averase {or. the
.lapbelt-onlv
i,i-*-i"" i" inl; ubao.inut arei compared 6 the lap/shoulder belt
dummies.
Mr. Kuczx.e.. W}lo authored the repon?
iii.. iit ;e". rnii l" u Nutio"ut Hilhwav Traffic- Safetv Administ.ui."
i"pott but it has not been pu6tlsned ye! w-q ha5 a, draft of
iil';;;;.i;;;-;" [.'" u""n siven a topv oi-the fi]m- Notice here'
;';; ;;;;Gi";"ia "*"ut iJ", which hits the lapbelt sc violentlv
;ili d;'i;"b-;n-t."ut". it breaks after measuring .an average load'
il;';'ih;'b"ia of-more than 2,200 -pounds,.which
is as much as
thiee times that measured on a lap/shoulder belt oummy