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From: Dominic.Gill@p22.f102.n250.z2.fidonet.org (Dominic Gill)
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Subject: Whiplash Injury Victims
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Date: 17 Jan 90 02:11:12 GMT
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In a message to All With Interest <31 Dec 89 13:03:00> Ed Madara wrote:

 EM> There are over 4,000,000 rear-end auto collisions in the U.S.
 EM> annually -- many resulting in very real, painful and long term
 EM> whiplash injuries to the neck and back. 

Isnt (one of) the answer to this one making it compulsory for all
cars to have head restraints fitted as standard?

I have a friend who drives a Volvo 240 saloon, & who was driven
into from the rear while he was stationary by another car doing
about 65 mph.

The driver of the other car was killed.  My friend was pretty
bruised up & shaken -- tho nothing broken..  And especially nothing
damaged seriously in neck or back -- only muscle & tendon strains.

He was assured by the doctor who treated him that if hadn't been
sitting in a Volvo with the kind of tough, well-made head restraint
it has, he would have been either dead or seriously paralyzed.

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