According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, more than 60 percent of passenger vehicles do a bad job of preventing neck and head injuries when a vehicle is rear ended. The seat/head ...

Everyone knows how important it is to wear your seatbelt. It is also important to make sure that the headrest in your car is at the appropriate level for your height so that you don't get seriously ...

Head restraints in several passenger vehicles provided marginal or poor protection against neck injuries and whiplash, the insurance industry reported Thursday in new crash test results. Only 22 of 75 ...

As per a study conducted by World Health Organization, 1.35 million people died in road accidents globally and 50 million were injured in 2018. While high speed driving and drunk driving are ...

A rear-end crash occurs every 17 seconds in the U.S. But many cars, especially those made before 2009, offer inadequate protection from the whiplash injuries that can result. Whiplash refers to the ...

Two out of three van drivers do not know how to correctly position the head restraints in their vehicles, or wrongly think that the top should be level with their neck or ears, a survey by Brake, the ...

What Is It: Auto makers are coming out with head-restraint systems designed to make being rear-ended less of a pain in the neck. When a car is hit from behind with enough force, occupants' bodies move ...

A reactive head restraint and car seat system designed to reduce whiplash in rear-end vehicle collisions has been unveiled by British engineers. The unique concept has been brought to life using ...

Please tell me how you make sure your head restraint is correctly adjusted so it provides the best protection in the event of a crash. Anthony. Hello Anthony, head restraints are safety features ...

The 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer and 2005 Mitsubishi Galant were tested by IIHS because these vehicles received a good and acceptable rating, respectively, in IIHS’s static evaluation of head restraints.

A newly filed patent (Publication Number: US20240034211A1) describes a head restraint for a vehicle seat that includes a head support, a head restraint mounting assembly with a first mounting stem for ...