Sentences with phrase «prevent rollover accidents»

It shares most of their safety kit after all, including features like autonomous emergency braking, blind - spot monitoring and electronics designed to help prevent rollover accidents.

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Passive safety features include: crumple zones in 1957 (vehicle body structure absorbs the force of impact); collapsible steering column (prevents the steering column from protruding into the cabin during accidents), strengthened occupant cell enhanced occupant protection during severe impacts (rollovers); pre-accident seatbelt tensioning (tightens seatbelts prior to impact), and sandwich platforms (allows the engine to slide under the occupants in a head - on collision).

The minivan actually sits pretty low to the ground to prevent rollover in the event of car accidents.

In fact, almost 50 percent of all rollover crashes involve some amount of alcohol, and experts believe that many of those accidents could be prevented in their entirety if drivers abstained from drinking and driving.

With the issues surrounding rollovers understood, the focus becomes preventing those accidents from ever taking place.

The NHTSA estimates that as many as 75 percent of the fatalities reported in rollover accidents could be prevented if seatbelts are worn.

Attorney Thompson has successfully represented victims of SUV rollovers by obtaining rollover data on the vehicles and, through the use of experts in the field, establishing that fairly minor and inexpensive design changes could have prevented the accident and the serious injuries that resulted.