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Before starting on your next automobile trip a report on research into automotive accidents cold be life-saving reading for-you-- and——your.

families.

Out of automotive crash research has come the terrifying picture of what happens to steel and glass, flesh and blood, im the split second s human. being is hurled to eternity. This is the slow-motion reconstruction

’ of ‘what happens when a ‘car travelling 55 m.p.h. hits a tree.

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__” 4/10th OF A SECOND ae Car’s front 24 iriches have been heels demolished but the rear vnd is still travelling at an estimated 85 m.p.h. Driver’s body is still travelling at 55 m.p.h, , The half-ton motor block crunches into the tree,

Rear of the car. Hke & bucking horse, rac high enough tn rapa

bark off low branches.

: 5/10tti OF A SECOND '1/10th OF A SECOND i Ae. , 7 ae Driver's fear-trozen hands bend the steering column into ne Front bumper and chrome frosting of the grill collapses. ; ‘almost vertical position. Slivers.of steel penetrate the tree 14 inches or more. ae seed mee ae the steering wheel shaft. Los Scant Hee Pemevers d intercostal arteri

> = 292/10th OF A SECOND

“ Hood. ccrumples as it rises, smashing into windshield. : 3 Spinning rear wheels leave the ground. Grill disintorgrates.

Fenders come in contact with the tree forcing rear parts to splay- out over the front doors.

ie Heavy structural members of the car Sata: to ae as 8 brake on the - terrific forward momentum of the 214-ton body. :

But the driver’s ‘body continues to move forward at the vehicle’s original speed, a force of pounds.

His legs, rammed easiest snap - knee joints.

3/10th OF A SECOND oo Driver’s body is now off the seats pressing against the, dashboard.

Plastic and steel frame of the steering wheel begins to bend under his terrible death grip.

His head is now on the sun visor, his chest above the . steering column,

Blood. spurts Into his Inngs.

"_6/10th OF A SECOND A Ea alg fest imo th tere tnt re sped

, » from his tightly-laced shoes.

20° times' gravity, his body weighing 3,200

torso apeignt, broken knees—

The_brake pedal shears off at the floor boards. Chassis bends in the middle, shearing body bolts, Driver’s head smashes into the windshield.

Rear of the car begins its downward fall, ‘spinning wheels dissing into -the ground.

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‘a endies withing ely of the ax tea tt shape. : Hinges tear. - + Doors spring open. : . “In one last convulsion the seat rams forward, pinning the driver against the cruel steel_of the steering shaft.

_ Blood leaps frm his mouth, shock has frozen his haath. HE IS NOW DEAD!

ELAPSED TIME: SEVEN TENTHS OF A SECOND, = » ~~ ——~

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Shocks you doesn't it?...fo read the-truth about auto accidents! - . . we were shocked and horrified too when we 8 3 first read it... but then we realized that accidents are on ey : * the increase ... that innocent children are killed every day ~- due to high speed and carlessness .....and that’s when we = decided it had to be printed! |

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