Abstract
The paper discusses the safety of minibus seats in the light of the current European Safety Directives, general safety requirements regarding structural behaviour and occupant protection, accident investigation, full scale tests on minibuses and vans and numerical simulation studies. The evidence strongly supports the view that the current static testing of the seat belt anchorages ought to be extended to dynamic complete seat tests with instrumented dummies, for which a test acceleration corridor and safety requirements have been proposed. (A)