Seat Belt System Aims To Make Child Seats Safer In The Event Of Frontal Impacts

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 11:21 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have designed a load limiter that reduces the pressure on the chest area by absorbing part of the energy produced in a frontal impact. The system reduces the speed at which the child is thrown forward and back into the seat, a movement that leads to serious injury in many accidents.

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