![]() ![]() ![]() Since that time, in excess of 20 million people worldwide have lost their lives to motor vehicle accidents. Some years later, on September 13, 1899, Henry Bliss entered the history books as North America's first motor vehicle fatality when he was hit stepping off a New York City trolley. On August 31, 1869, Mary Ward became what is believed to be the first recorded victim of an automobile accident, when she was thrown out of a motor vehicle and killed in Parsonstown, Ireland. This article focuses on the role of crash test dummies in preventing injury to automobile occupants. In modern times, they remain indispensable in the development of new makes and models of all types of vehicles, from family sedans to fighter aircraft. ![]() Crash test dummies have saved countless lives.Ĭrash test dummies are full-scale replicas of human beings, weighted and articulated to simulate the behaviour of a human body in a motor-vehicle collision, and instrumented to record as much data as possible on variables such as speed of impact, crushing force, bending, folding, or torque of the body, and deceleration rates during a collision. ![]()
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