Laying the\ngroundwork for safety improvements for back-seat occupants<\/a>),\nresearchers found that failing to buckle up was a large factor; but even when\nbelted, many older adults and children over age nine suffered injuries. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe new study evaluates the specific types of injuries\nbelted back-seat passengers age six or older sustained in front crashes. The\ninformation will be used by IIHS to develop a new frontal crash test that will\nevaluate occupant protection in the rear as well as the front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cManufacturers have put a lot of work into improving\nprotection for drivers and front-seat passengers. Our moderate overlap front\ncrash test and, more recently, our driver-side and passenger-side small overlap\nfront tests are a big reason why,\u201d said IIHS President David Harkey. \u201cWe hope a\nnew evaluation will spur similar progress in the back seat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In explaining what happens during a crash, IIHS said that in\na frontal collision front seat belts tighten around the occupants, a result of embedded\ndevices called crash tensioners. At the same time, the front airbags deploy\nwithin a fraction of a second. Side airbags may deploy too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tightened seat belts and deployed airbags keep the\nfront-seat occupants away from the steering wheel, instrument panel and other\nstructure when the vehicle stops abruptly, even if the force of the crash\npushes that structure inward. Front seat belts also have force limiters, which\nallow some webbing to spool out before forces from the belt get too high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the back of a car, side airbags protect passengers in a\nside crash, but there are no front airbags, and the seat belts generally lack\ncrash tensioners and force limiters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
More sophisticated restraint systems are needed in the back seats of cars, according to new research by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). A study of frontal crashes in which belted rear-seat passengers were killed or seriously injured found that, while front seat occupants have benefited from advancements in restraints (airbags and seat belts, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":8579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}