auto accident victim ejected from vehicle simulation

The students will monitor usage three times during the school year to see if the program had a positive effect. The program consists of students monitoring seatbelt usage, working with peers about seatbelts and hosting programs about safe driving habits including seatbelt use and distracted driving. The KHP program that went to all three Stafford County schools was part of the SAFE Seatbealts Are For Everyone initiative the county schools joined earlier this year.

The national average for seatbelt use is estimated from 60-80 percent with usage among teens 10-20 percent lower. Warner said the victim was a student that had been to one of the seatbelt programs not long before the accident occurred. 'I recognized the car when I pulled up,' he said. While Warner said he enjoys the educational part of his job with the rollover simulator not everyone gets the message.ĭuring the program Warner, tells the students of getting called to a late night fatality accident when he was still working the Stafford County area. 'One of the hardest parts of my job is telling somebody their loved one will not be coming home after an accident,' Warner said. Tragically, deaths and injuries continue to occur in many rollover accidents because drivers and passengers fail to use seat belts and child safety seats. In those crashes, 64 people were killed, and 638 were injured while unrestrained. In 2001, approximately 2,700 rollover traffic crashes occurred on Kansas' roadways. Trooper Warner left the freshly ejected dummy sprawled across the deck in full view of the students as he continued his talk on the importance of wearing seatbelts while driving or riding in an automobile.

'Most of the fatality rollover accidents I go to, the victim is thrown from the vehicle and then gets ran over,' KHP Trooper Gary Warner told students as the beat up dummy lay in a tangled pile of arms and legs underneath the frame of the crash simulator.

The blue truck was a customized rollover crash simulator that the Kansas Highway Patrol took to each of the Stafford County schools, Monday. Students watched arms, legs and other body parts flopping through the window of a blue pickup as it rolled over and over and over.įortunately, the body parts and body that eventually came flying out of the open window belonged to a KHP crash test dummy.

Auto accident victim ejected from vehicle simulation