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When your car stops, does your luggage?
To protect yourself and
your employees, install Bootsafe.
The Department of Transport
calculated that 25kg of potatoes travel forward through the rear seats with a force of 3
tonnes at a front impact speed of 25 mph - that's the same momentum as a baby elephant!
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A
jar of honey killed a woman in Australia. A can of fizzy drink killed a boy in
Ireland. |
Secondary collisions happen
during road accidents when equipment carried in the boot or trunk of a vehicle continues
forward at the speed the vehicle was travelling before the impact - until it hits
something!
- World in Action (UK Television, Jan 1995) calculated that up
to 1 in 3 frontal impacts result in a crush injury or death to occupants from luggage.
- Which Magazine (UK, Feb 1995) found that rear seat backs
collapsed in all their tests, at 35 mph the luggage breaks into the car in 0.11 seconds
and hits the windscreen in 0.37 seconds.
- The law world-wide only requires car seat backs to be able to
hold themselves in place in a 25 mph accident and no new laws are proposed.
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Crash test showing equipment flying out
of the boot towards driver and passenger |
View from inside luggage compartment during crash test showing equipment
breaking through the rear seat. |
Front view of the same test, clearly showing the tool box breaking the rear
passenger seats. |
Virtually all hatchbacks, wagons, recreational vehicles, four
wheel drive vehicles and vans are at risk!
Any person driving a vehicle for work purposes is covered by
the Health and Safety at Work Regulations, UK, and their car essentially becomes their
place of work.
You could lose the services of an essential employee whilst
he/she recovers from injuries caused by work-related equipment.
To find out how to protect yourself, your drivers and your
passengers, follow the Bootsafe link below.
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