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The weaker windshield becomes the point of impact and the top of the occupant compartment is crushed.
Passenger vehicles are designed to absorb crash energy in frontal crashes through deformation or crush of energy-absorbing structures forward of the occupant compartment.
Because the edge of the vehicle hits the barrier, it misses the main crush-zone structures in the middle of the vehicle that reduce crash forces on the occupant compartment.
Being belted is protective for ejection, but may not protect against occupant compartment infringement.
We encourage manufacturers to redesign their pickups to resist intrusion in the lower occupant compartment to safeguard people from serious leg and foot injuries that might require months of rehabilitation," Arbelaez said in a statement.
In the test, researchers study whether the occupant compartment resists intrusion of collapsing car parts and structures.
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Improving energy absorption characteristics reduces the magnitude of forces transferred to the occupant compartments.
Rear compartment occupants were more likely to be injured than those in the front.
The vehicles have distinctive, armored V-shaped hulls that are designed to deflect the force of the explosion from roadside bombs out and away from the vehicle, sparing the occupants in the compartment.
Writer describes the eight occupants of a certain compartment.
Systems for protecting occupants in the event of an accident fall into four major classes: maintenance of passenger-compartment integrity, occupant restraints, interior-impact energy-absorber systems, and exterior-impact energy absorbers.
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