What about all the stuff that can be in the back of a pickup? Wood, tools, concrete blocks, whatever. They will potentially do a TON more damage then a flying body.
Not really, the things in your back seat are more of a threat to the driver and person on the front passenger seat. Only the things on the central back seat have a direct path outside.
and things loaded on top of a car mostly are a bigger threat to the car or people behing the one you crashed into.
Dont underestimate any potential projectile. With enough speed crashing into something or having something crash into you, everything is potentialy dangerous. Just remind yourself that a bird can take down a jumbo jet if gets sucked into the turbine.
And with (I believe) every new car equipped with air bags, how is the body going to get out?
That depends on the speed of the car. I forgot how fast it was, but at a speed of certainly above 80 km/h you get thrown out.
At a speed below without seatbelt, the airbag will kill you, since it crushes your ribcage.
Please show me a crash test video where the dummies were not belted AND they somehow flew out of the car through/over the air bags?
It`s not the enitre body that flies of. Your head can get smashed to pieces and it`s splinters become projectiles.
My brother (who worked as an army medic and for the red cross) told me about severed heads, arms, bits of jaws and teeth than can get catapulted out for distance of 40 meters.
Airbags today mostly prevent the entire body from flying out, and the highest risk is at the central back seat and at the side videos. But it can still happen
This is an animation used to reenact an accident at a court case
To fly out of the front you need to reach a certain minimum speed for each different car.
There are car models out of which you can get catapulted out entirely more likely than others.
Here is one where they definitely did not:
http://www.debatepolitics.com/polls...laws-consenting-adults-21.html#post1062865135
Plus, most cars now come with side air bags as well.
Airbags simply break your ribs and sometimes even your spine if you dont wear a seatbelt. When driving at high speed it even can rip your head and arms off.
No.
The main thing that prevents people from flying out of the car is the glass.
Which itself becomes a dangerous projectile if it breaks.