Ford to Release Research on Better Crash-Test Dummy

February 18th, 2008

The Baltimore Sun reports:

Researchers hope to develop safer restraints by using a better crash-test dummy - one that includes a simulated child abdomen.

For more than a decade, it has been clear that the abdomen is the second most commonly injured body area in seat-belted youngsters, after the head. With the abdominal insert, safety engineers can at last measure precisely what happens to this vital region in the average 4-to-8-year-old.

Ford Motor Co. engineers spent three years working with experts from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Virginia, Wayne State University in Detroit, and the Japanese seat-belt manufacturer Takata Corp. to develop a simulated abdomen that fits into the standard 6-year-old-size crash-test dummy.

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