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or door structures. The establishment of this order of dangers ldd to recent announcement by two manufacturers that seat belts will be offered optionally on future models. (More recently, one of these announced a door latch designed to prevent doors opening under impact, a steering wheel designed -to absorb impact energy and. optional padding for instrument panels.

Research and fact finding has taken place of late in Augusta, Spotsylvania and Stafford .counties and is now in progress in the Danville, Pittsylvania, and Halifax area. According to Governor Thomas B. Stanley, the accumulation of this important data would not have been possible without the co-operation of Virginia physicians, the Virginia Department of Health, the Virginia State Police and hospital authorities of the State.

During a 12-year period of studying causes of injury in li^ht planes, Cornell conclusively demonstrated that if structures which occupants strike are properly engineered, many injuries could be eliminated or moderated. As a result, a dual concept of protection was developed; First, a redesign , of the passenger compartment to create an “island of safety” for occupants and, second, the “packaging” f>i occupants by restraining devices. - '

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