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Incheon School Car Accident Last Year … Inappropriate Seat Belt Controversy
Two-point seat belt crash test results in “high risk of injury”
“Request for a mandatory 3-point belt for children by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport”
Most of the seat belts installed on children’s school buses in Korea have a structure that only covers the abdomen.
However, as a result of consumer research, it was found that this type of belt does not properly fix the upper body in a collision, so the risk of injury is very high.
Our law does not even stipulate what type of seat belts must be installed on children’s school buses.
Reporter Cha Yoo-jeong reports.
[기자]In May of last year, two elementary school students in their cars were killed in a car accident at a soccer club in Incheon.
Speeding and traffic violations were the problem, but the so-called two-point seat belt fitted to the school vehicle was also controversial.
The two-point type that connects the two points on both sides of the waist only covers the abdomen, but if a three-point belt was used that supports the shoulders, it could prevent serious human harm.
[김필수 / 대림대학교 자동차학과 교수 : 만약에 아이들에게 맞는 3점식 안전띠가 있었으면 사망률 부상률을 확실히 줄일 수 있었지 않았을까 하는 측면에서….]Consumers conducted a protective function test on the two-point seat belt that is still installed in most children’s school vehicles in Korea.
I put the mannequin in the back seat and crashed it against the wall at 35 mph, but the upper body was not fixed, so it sticks out more than 70 cm in front.
The head hit the front seat and the impact caused damage to the rear of the front seat.
This results in a very high risk of injury.
[김병법 / 소비자원 생활안전팀 팀장 : 2점식 안전 벨트는 자료와 같이 앞으로 훨씬 많이 이동하거든요, 그러다 보니 운전석 앞 플라스틱 덮개까지 깨질 수 있는 충격량이 발생하고, 두부에 발생하는 손상이 매우 심하다고 볼 수 있습니다.]In the United States, three-point seatbelts were recently mandated to install a three-point seatbelt on small school buses, saying it can reduce the chance of head and neck injuries.
After the controversy in Korea, it wasn’t until last year that a related bill was introduced, but ultimately it was not passed.
The Consumer Agency plans to request the Ministry of Lands, Infrastructure and Transport to force the installation of a three-point belt for children.
Furthermore, when he informed the school bus manufacturer of the results, he added that he received a response that he had recently started developing a children’s three-point belt.
YTN Cha Yoo-jeong[[email protected]]it is.
