Investigation report of the first airbag deployment in a "real-world" accident.

Author(s)
Yost, C.D.
Year
Abstract

A 1972 Mercury equipped with an experimental air bag lap belt restraint system collided with a garbage truck at an intersection in Santa Barbara, California, triggering the first air bag deployment in a real-world accident. The lap belted Mercury driver received minor injuries.

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Publication

Library number
B 2781 (In: B 1713 S) /84/91/ IRRD 207171
Source

In: Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine AAAM, 1972, p. 124-128, 3 fig., 1 tab.

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