Sentences with phrase «vehicle occupants»

Each year more than 9,000 passenger vehicle occupants die in side impacts.

How does this affect the legal liability of drivers or other vehicle occupants in seeking money damages for personal injuries, wrongful death or destruction of property?

The system also helps to provide enhanced protection for vehicle occupants while at the same time increasing compatibility with other vehicles in a frontal collision.

The crash tests compare vehicles by their performance in front crashes into a fixed barrier at 35 mph; more than half of vehicle occupant injuries occur in such accidents.

Using a seat belt is one of the most effective actions a motor vehicle occupant can take to prevent death and injury in a crash.

Airbags are intended to prevent passenger vehicle occupants from sustaining severe injuries in car accidents.

Provided superior customer service to vehicle owners and / or vehicle occupants during and after call / transportation / service of displaced vehicle.

Almost 10,000 passenger vehicle occupants die each year in side impacts, and head injuries are a leading cause.

If you determine that your vehicle is affected by the conditions of this recall, then avoid allowing vehicle occupants to occupy the front passenger seat.

Heated front seats will keep vehicle occupants warm in cold weather should it occur.

That lean reduces the lateral acceleration vehicle occupants feel while also enhancing agility through curves and turns.

In 2004, only thirty - five percent of rural passenger vehicle occupant fatalities were taken to a hospital.

There is not as much protection for vehicle occupants on the sides of the vehicle and the accident usually results in serious injury to the occupants of the vehicle.

The 500 models also feature advanced technologies to actively enhance the security of vehicle occupants.

It was possible that you and / or other vehicle occupants could have sustained fewer or less severe injuries.

Both older and younger passenger vehicle occupants are benefiting from efforts to improve protection in crashes, a recent study confirms.

Concern: In the event of a collision, if the front passenger airbag is deployed, the excessive pressure could cause the inflator to fragment with the potential to injure vehicle occupants with metal shrapnel.

Dr. Fourney, Ulrich Leiste, PhD, assistant research engineer in the Clark School's Department of Aerospace Engineering, and doctoral researcher Jarrod Bonsmann, PhD, developed highly advanced shock absorber designs that incorporate polyurea - coated tubes and other structures to reduce reducing the blast acceleration experienced by vehicle occupants by up to 80 percent.

According to New Zealand Police, approximately 30 % of vehicle occupants who have died in crashes in 2017 were unrestrained.

The 2014 Ford Fiesta's safety offerings include Emergency Assistance (EA) via SYNC ® which helps connect vehicle occupants with emergency services following an accident, providing vehicle location and open line communication.

Defective auto parts — When any part of an automobile is defective, this may not only cause an accident to occur but may increase the severity of the collision by failing to protect vehicle occupants from injury.

Concern: If the seat belt anchor bolt can not be properly secured into the anchor plate, this could place vehicle occupants at an increased risk of injury during a motor vehicle crash.

Although motor vehicle occupant deaths among children in the United States have declined in the past decade, more deaths could be prevented if restraints were always used.

Save energy + airflow control (S - FLOW) developed The world's first system that sends air only to where vehicle occupants are seated in order to maintain and improve comfort while also improving fuel efficiency

• Served as private sector representative for Maryland Child Passenger Safety Board, and effectively trained Maryland State Police on vehicle occupant protection methodologies and awarded honorary MD State Trooper Recognition.

The issue involves defective inflator and propellant devices that may deploy improperly in the event of a crash, shooting metal fragments into vehicle occupants.

The new Polo GTI brings connectivity to the driver and other vehicle occupants more innovatively and more easily than ever.

Carriers that are not structurally sound or have insufficient connection strength can directly affect the safety of the pet, and they place human vehicle occupants at risk of injury, should an accident occur.

Honda's commitment to safety extends to pedestrians as well as vehicle occupants.

Concern: If internal airbag pressure becomes dangerously excessive, the integrated airbag inflator could rupture upon deployment causing metal fragments to strike and potentially harm vehicle occupants.

NHTSA's New Car Assessment Program compares vehicles by their performance in frontal crashes at 35 mph because more than half of vehicle occupant injuries occur in such accidents.

Served as private sector representative for Maryland Child Passenger Safety Board, and effectively trained Maryland State Police on vehicle occupant protection methodologies.

When we decide that 137 bullets fired towards unarmed vehicle occupants is not grounds for guilt, why don't we know that to deny justice is to deny peace: for families, for communities, for our collective conscience?

But, he adds, there are deep and light levels of that, and vehicle occupants freed of driving responsibility are expected to do mainly the latter, such as catching up on emails.

Engineers at Jaguar Land Rover are working on integrated «wellness» sensors that observe vehicle occupants» brain activity.

The advertisements target male passenger vehicle occupants ages 18 to 34 years old, a group that comprised 66 percent of unrestrained occupants killed in traffic crashes in 2010 — the highest proportion among all occupants.

According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, the rule will, «reduce the likelihood of complete and partial ejections of vehicle occupants through side windows.»

The W116 introduced other improved passive safety features into the vehicle design, including a strengthened vehicle occupant shell.

PRE-SAFE ® can do things like tightened seatbelts when the vehicle starts to skid and even automatically close windows to better prepare vehicle occupants from the restraint system.

The GHBMC now has a «family» of 13 body models of male, female, adult and child vehicle occupants and pedestrians in detailed and simplified versions for use in simulations.

This allows drivers and passengers to interact with the display they are already most familiar with and still keeps the entire car safer by not forcing vehicle occupants to fumble through unfamiliar screen menus.

That means that every second vehicle occupant is potentially at risk for a whiplash injury, according to Douglas Romilly, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of British Columbia.

Exemplary vehicle occupant protection is ensured by the integrated MINI safety concept which includes not just a body with highly resilient bracket structures, optimized deformation zones and an extremely stable passenger cell but also front and side airbags, side curtain airbags, driver and front passenger knee airbags, 3 - point automatic belts on all seats, belt tensioners and belt force limiters at the front and ISOFIX child seat mountings at the rear as standard.

In the Center, we work every day to reduce the risk of injury to vehicle occupants utilizing various tests, analyses, and engineering design tools.

The Takata airbag recall has resulted in vehicle occupants suffering catastrophic injuries and death.