To make the point about safety improvements, the institute crashed a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air against a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu. The video, titled “Crash test: 1959 Chevy Bel Air,” is on YouTube. The dummy in the Bel Air, without a seat belt or an air bag, illustrates why death rates in the 1960s were above 4 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, and are now barely above 1.
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Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
To think that I was driven around in one of those things riding in a car seat which hung over the front seat. I'd have been the first person through the windshield.
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