Gray died a week after he was arrested on 12 April, then handcuffed and shackled in the back of a police van without a seatbelt.
Officers completed paperwork over Gray's arrest, placed him in leg shackles, and according to charges laid against all six officers involved in the incident, placed Gray "on his stomach, headfirst on to the floor" back into the van without a seatbelt.
In 2006, the six imams, all of Middle Eastern descent, were accused of suspicious behaviour after they prayed before their flight and one imam requested a longer seatbelt on account of his obesity.
Police have conceded that Gray was not put in a seatbelt at the time he was placed in the vehicle, in violation of standard procedure.
Many questions remain over Gray's death, with some speculating he was subjected to a so-called "rough ride", where a prisoner is not placed in a seatbelt and is then thrown violently around a vehicle being driven erratically.
Higher safety standards, seatbelt laws, and other regulations have effectively reduced the incidence of car-related injury and death.
In the front seat of a Vietnamese taxi, you get a better view, the seatbelt works, and you're closer to the serrated pineapple drivers sometimes put on their dashboard to disguise less pleasant smells.There is a scene in John Le Carré's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", when our hero goes undercover in cold-war Czechoslovakia.
If the system detects an obstacle that is likely to cause a crash, it warns the driver via an alarm, a flashing light, and then a tactile or "haptic" warning which tightens the driver's seatbelt.
On February 7th, in a murder judged horrific even by Rio's fevered standards, a group of assailants hijacked a car and set off for a joy ride, dragging a six-year-old boy still tangled in his seatbelt through the streets.
Use the other to find the release mechanism for your four-point seatbelt, but do not activate it immediately.
Car-safety experts routinely name the airbag as one of the most significant innovations since the seatbelt when it comes to saving lives.
