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News: Air bag safety: Facts you should know Air bags add to the protection offered by seat belts. However air bags are not without dangers. It is important to educate people about safe transportation in vehicles with air bags.... Read more |
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Sadly enough, many of us during our lifetime will experience a less or more serious car accident. Car accidents are a major cause of mortality and permanent severe disabilities all over the world. |
November 2003
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in frontal crashes air bags reduce deaths among drivers by 30% and among passengers by 27%.
Most new cars have air bags for front-seat passengers. When used with lap/shoulder belts, air bags work very well to protect older children and adults who ride facing the front of the car. Air bags do not work with rear-facing child seats (those used with infants).
Airbags could seriously injure or even kill an unbuckled child or adult who is sitting too close to the air bag or who is thrown toward the dash during emergency braking. In a crash, the air bag inflates very quickly. It could hit anything close to the dashboard with enough force to cause severe injuries or even death.
Additionally I believe it is important to keep in memory the guidelines issued by NHTSA. The rear seat is the safest place for children of any age to ride. An infant in a rear-facing child seat must ride in the back seat if your vehicle has a passenger side air bag (babies under 1 year and 20 pounds should always ride in a rear-facing seat).
Make sure that everyone in the front seat is properly buckled up and seated as far back from the air bags as is reasonably possible. Make sure that all young children are properly secured in a child safety seat and older children by a lap/shoulder belt. Know how to properly install your child seat in the vehicle. Read both the owner’s manual for the vehicle and the instructions for your child safety seat.
You will find more interesting information and relevant links about this issue in the article Air bag safety: Facts you should know included in our tenth monthly newsletter.
I hope this information will be helpful for you and your family and I wish you a fruitful reading.
Takis A. Haggiandreou
Director
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Air bags are most efficient when passengers, driver and children are buckled. Children under 12 should be properly restrained in the back seat. |
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