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Crash

Carnage

Mon, Jan 12, 1998
The first programme of the three-part series on car development looks at the severely chequered history of car safety. How in 1956 a seat belt campaign in the US was scrapped because the hugely influential General Motors feared damage to car sales, how the revolutionary British Mini was, in its original design, accused of being a death trap and why the airbag, the great safety device of the 90s, is now being switched off by US motorists.
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Fatal Attraction
The second of a three-part series looking at car safety. This programme looks at how, despite our perception of feeling safe inside our cars, death and injury are still ever-present possibilities. The chilling suggestion is that the safer the conditions, the more invulnerable we feel, so the faster we travel.
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