Originally posted by Flyndaran
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very well-since you seem to have some need to be proven wrong
international journal of legal medicine
The results indicate that belted front seat passengers sustain a higher injury risk with an unrestrained passenger in the back seat. These results are valid for collision speeds below 45 km/h.
Journal of the American Medical Association
CONTEXT: A car occupant could be killed if struck by another occupant who was catapulted forward, backward, or sideways in a crash.
CONCLUSION: Persons who wish to reduce their risk of death in a crash should wear their own restraint and should ask others in the same car to use their restraints.
World report on road traffic injury prevention
"the effectiveness of front seatbelts in a frontal collision is reduced by the rear loading caused by unrestrained passengers in the back seats.
and another
CONCLUSION: Unrestrained rear-seat passengers place themselves as well as their driver at great risk of serious injury when involved in a head-on crash.
Still another
While people riding in the back seat of a car without a seat belt are less likely to sustain life-threatening injuries during a crash than unrestrained drivers and front-seat passengers, they are at greater risk for brain damage, a new study finds.
Of 152 cases involving both front and rear riders, 79% of rear-seat passengers and 63% of front-seat drivers or passengers were not wearing seat belts at the time of the crash. But, surprisingly, the study found that unrestrained rear passengers were the most likely to sustain brain injuries--65% did, compared with 61% of unrestrained front-seat riders, 43% of rear restrained riders and 43% of front restrained riders.
355 pick-up truck occupants were killed in Iowa during the five years (2001-2005); these
occupants had the lowest seat-belt restraint use compared with other passenger vehicles occupants.
o 70% of pick-up truck occupant fatalities were unrestrained vs. 42% of passenger car occupants who were unrestrained.
Unrestrained occupants were 24 times more likely to be killed than restrained occupants; 7 times more likely to suffer severe and 4 times more likely to suffer non-severe injuries than restrained ones.
wow that was and exhausting 5 mintues of googling-took 3 for me to disprove the "ejected from vehicle being a myth"
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