IIHS Pressures Industry To Improve Back Seat Safety

Sitting in the back seat? You could be at more risk of dying or suffering serious injury in a head-on collision than someone sitting in the front.

That counterintuitive finding comes from a study released Thursday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which found that rear passengers often lack sufficient protections in frontal crashes.

In some crashes, poorly engineered seat belts are killing or badly injuring back-seat passengers while front-seat passengers in the same vehicle survive or avoid serious injury.

MDarringer - 4/26/2019 6:35:07 PM

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Who owns the IIHS? That's right, the insurance industry.
What is the function of the IIHS? That's right, to justify the insurance rates of its owners.
Is the IIHS on the side of consumers? Hella fakk no.
Is the IIHS a scam? 100%

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 4/27/2019 10:22:44 PM

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A) If you don't wear a seatbelt you are dumb
B) If you don't wear it properly you are dumb
D) Some large people really should not be in a back seat
E) If you get a sore chest after your seatbelt saves you.. be happy
F) Always make sure you secure a baby or booster seat properly