€ Secon B.C. motorists can significantly reduce their chances of sustaining a painful whiplash injury by taking three seconds te properly adjust their head restraints. On an average prernium of $900, nearly one third of this amount is applied to the pay- ment of soft tissue neck and back injury. “ICBC estimates that soft tissue neck and back injuries account for more than 70% of all bodily injury claims,” said ICBC vehicle safe- ty design manager John Gane. “Surveys also show that only 35% of Canadian motorists properly adjust “their head restraints. B.C. is doing slightly better, but we still need to do more to reduce needless pain and injury.” The Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia, Burger King Restaurants of Canada and the Insurance Corporation of BC launched a Head Restraint Satery Campaign today. “Phy: siotherapists know how soft tissue NEWS photo wie Wetaefie'd AUTO head rests should be no lower than your car- tops and : as closet to the back of your head as possible. “These are riled time offers. 48-mo bagaton $1 od, St8.067. Leaner @ Loses ae OAC ck close Ge voled "Bert New Family Obtigation $20.31 a. Leases are ae 2 « a7 tea ets SATE ate ys co ree Sraaes aceite nermameaes lose ended, ipelunes destnation cand Geltvary charges. Based on 24,000 km a yeaa for af 2001 Pamiindor ont Si neck and back injuries affect every aspect of peoples’ lives,” said Joyce Statton, executive director of the Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia. “These preventable accidents can_ really upset a person's lifestyle; they affect their work, recreation and interpersonal relations. Physiotherapists work closely with patients and ICBC to help accident victims recover as quickly as possible, but we know that most of these injuries can be prevented in just three seconds.” The Head Restraint Safety Campaign will include the distribution of promotional safety information at participating Burger King restaurants, physiotherapy clinics and [CBC Claim Centres throughout the Lower Mainland. Furthermore, a three-day head restraint safety campaign blitz will take this weekend at various high vehicle traffic loca- tions throughout the Lower Mainland. “LCBC volunteers and B.C. physiothera- pists trem across the Lower Mainfand will be at the Pacific, Peace Arch, Boundary Bay, Aldergrove, and Huntington border cross- ings and atthe Tsawwassen and Albion ferry terminals conducting physical checks of head restraints and encouraging motorists to make the proper adjustments to their head restraint,” stat- ed Gane. A head restraint measur- ing device developed by ICBC has hefped set the world standard for auto- mobile head restraints. The ICBC device is used by auto manufacturers around the world to help design safer head restraints. st% Visit our website at www.brightest-idea.com Nonsense LzASING 20.000 lun @ yen for the 2001 xtra. Dealers are free to set Sao wae Friday, July 28, 2000 — save Your Every year, ICBC rates the head restraints of approximately 150 new vehicles on the market and the results are published in ICBC’s annual Buying a Better Auto guide brochure. “ICBC developed the head restraint mea- suring device in 1993 and shortly afterward implemented a head restraint rating program, The rating program is so successful that it is now duplicated in other countries around the world including the United States, Australia and Great Britain,” said Gane. Safety researchers define proper use as adjusting the top of a head restraint to a Complete’ ATS Collision North Shore News - 25 height that is at least equal to, or higher than, the top of the driver's or passenger's ears. A head restraint is rated good if it is nor more than 12 centimetres down from the top of the head, and not more than 10 cm back from the back of the head. 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