Unfortunately, the car was and remains one of the most frequently crashed modes of transport. According to statistics, passengers sitting in certain places in the passenger compartment are less likely than others to be injured in an accident, or even remain unharmed. What are these places?
It is hardly possible in the modern world to meet such a person who has never driven a car in his life. Today, light vehicles are much more common than 15-20 years ago, and on the one hand it is very convenient, because the car enthusiast always has the opportunity to quickly and comfortably get where he wants. On the other hand, a huge number of cars on the roads inevitably provokes all kinds of traffic accidents. Where do you need to sit in a car to keep the risk of injury as a result of an accident as low as possible?
What is the safest place in a car?
There is a popular belief that the safest place for a passenger in a car is in the back seat behind the driver's seat. In fact, everything is not so, because if a car passes an intersection, and at this time another car crashes into it, then it is the passenger sitting behind the driver who can be seriously injured.
According to other sources, the safest place in the car is in the back seat diagonally from the driver. This stereotype is so widespread that the overwhelming majority of VIPs sit in this particular place, and such placement is not a consequence of their personal desire, but only following the protocol. However, it is impossible to completely exclude the situation in which, in the event of an accident, one car will hit the other in the side from the right side, and then the passenger sitting in the back seat diagonally from the driver risks the most.
Where is the safest place in a car? In fact, the most protected is the passenger who takes place in the center of the rear seat. If it is fastened, then it does not expose itself to the risk of flying out through the windshield in a head-on collision, and does not risk being injured in a collision on the side of the car as much as the passengers sitting to the left and right of it.
How dangerous is it to sit next to the driver in the passenger seat?
Some time ago, the passenger seat in the front seat was considered the least protected in the entire car, because in the event of a threat of an accident, the driver instinctively seeks to avoid a collision. Willy-nilly, in most cases, he "substitutes" the passenger sitting next to him. Manufacturers of modern cars pay attention to this circumstance, and most of the new cars of foreign production are equipped with additional airbags for the passenger sitting in front.
