Roadside rescue teams call the first 60 minutes after an accident
'the golden hour'
.
It is the margin of time between the rescue of a seriously injured vehicle occupant and his admission to the emergency room of a hospital that will save more lives.
With this premise,
Volvo Cars has been collaborating with
Swedish
rescue services for years
through frontal and side crash tests.
But it is the first time that he has left the closed laboratory and carried out an
extreme test outside, precipitating his new cars, once or several times, from a height of 30 meters
with the immediate intervention of rescue teams.
The Swedish emergency services asked for it and the company has responded affirmatively to the demand.
Extreme and calculated damages
From all the tests carried out,
lessons
have been drawn
that allow us to know which parts of the vehicles are most accessible
in extreme situations to rescue people trapped after an accident or the
most appropriate tools
to break steel, such as hydraulic pliers, or to intervene in delicate areas or dangerous.
Such extreme crash tests allow rescue teams to
anticipate any new situation
that they may encounter (and unfortunately encounter) in the day-to-day of traffic accidents, well of
frontal collisions at high speed against moving vehicles, objects static and side, rear collisions, bell turns, etc ...
Spectacular Volvo crash tests
Each launch
of a car from the crane takes preliminary work by Volvo engineers, who calculated the
pressure and force to which they had to expose their cars
to achieve the damage that was needed for each test.
The Swedish car company is conducting these trials in its country and offering the data to Swedish rescue services, but as a global company, thorough investigation of all these trials will provide
a comprehensive report that Volvo will make available to emergency teams around the world. world
for free.
Volvo has used
10 of its new models
, including the XC40, XC60 and XC90 SUVs and saloons such as the V90, to provide rescuers with more realistic information, since
the practices of these services have been carried out in scrap yards
, with Cars built decades ago with
materials that are no longer used as much in vehicle manufacturing
.
"There is a big difference in the strength of the steel, the structure of the safety cabin and the overall durability," adds Volvo Cars, between the cars of today and those manufactured 15 or 20 years ago.
They add that their cars are built with "
some of the toughest types of steel
" found in today's automotive industry.
"We knew that the resulting deformations [from the collisions] would be extreme. We did it to put the rescue personnel up to a real challenge," explains
Håkan Gustafson, head of the road accident investigation team at Volvo Cars
.
"We have been working closely with Swedish rescue services for many years, because we share the same goal: to make roads safer for everyone. We hope that no one ever has to experience the most serious accidents, but not everyone will. That is why it is vitally important to have
methods that help save lives
when the most serious accidents occur. "
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