When talking about the dangers that exist when driving a car, great attention is paid to events and situations that happen outside the car. In most cases, the dangers that are in the car itself are ignored if it can lead to injury to the car’s passengers or even their death during the slightest car accident. Find out below which deadly hazards you need to pay special attention to inside the vehicle.
Fastening seat belts
Statistically, an increased safety of 35% in traffic accidents is achieved by wearing seat belts.
In order for seat belts to be fully effective, all passengers in the car must be fastened. Pay special attention to the passengers who ride on the back seat. In the event of an accident, unrestrained rear passengers pose a major danger to forward passengers who are tied up. In the event of an accident, there are great forces that affect the human body, which is impossible to control. Based on this, the last unbound passengers can hit the bodies of the front passengers with their bodies with a huge force that can be deadly for all of them.
Fastening seat belts for children
Special attention should be paid to how to safely place the child in the car. Depending on the age of the child, there are different ways to insure children in the vehicle.
Child seats
There are many different child seats by design but also by characteristics. Those slightly larger and more expensive car seats are made for children up to a maximum of 35kg of body weight. These car seats feature additional interchangeable sponges that you can change as your child grows.
Other car seats are designed for smaller weights for children up to a maximum of 18kg of body weight. You will need to change these car seats for a larger car seat as soon as your child exceeds this weight.
Once the child becomes large enough to be able to just sit independently in the seat of your car, there are also car seats that are designed only to lift the child’s body to the height needed for the child’s seat belt to be fastened comfortably.
Extra car seats that help lift the baby’s body are expressed as a thicker piece of sponge.
Securing the cargo you are transporting in the trunk
As we have already mentioned, every unattached object that is transported, whether it is a person or an object. Becomes very dangerous if a car accident occurs, and they are not securely located and connected in the car.
The cargo being transported can kill the passengers in the car if it is heavier and if it is not placed and tied properly.
When a car hits a stationary object, it causes the body, which has a mass of 100 kg. To act with a force of 10,000 N and more on the rear bench of the car. If it happens that the item loosens in the car due to the loosening of the buckles that hold the backrest of the car’s back seat. It can result in the death of the passenger in the car.
Therefore, the transport of heavy objects by a vehicle intended for that purpose is resorted to. Or such an object must be tied in such a way that this force that would follow in the event of an accident does not act with all its force on the rear seat of the car.
Headrest
In the event of the slightest impact on your vehicle from behind by another vehicle, the cervical spine jerks. The danger of this blow is also contributed by the fact that the person is not aware or ready to strike because it comes suddenly. The body is relaxed and unstressed and the passenger’s head moves more freely.
That is why, since the eighties of the last century. All cars have come out of the production line with headrests in standard equipment. For these headrests to be effective. You need to position them as close to the back of your head as possible.
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