Cool. But there were no seatbelts and safety glass had not been invented. A crash at even 10 mph was a 'significant' event.
http://www.in.gov/gov/files/Press/12...eaths_Data.pdf
There were more motor vehicle deaths in Indiana in 1928 than in 2008, despite a smaller population and less cars on the road.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield
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Early windscreens were made of ordinary window glass, but that could lead to serious injuries in the event of a crash. A series of lawsuits led up to the development of stronger windscreens. The most notable example of this is the Pane vs. Ford case of 1917 that decided against Pane in that he was only injured through reckless driving. They were replaced with windscreens made of toughened glass and were fitted in the frame using a rubber or neoprene seal. The hardened glass shattered into many mostly harmless fragments when the windscreen broke. These windscreens, however, could shatter from a simple stone chip. In 1919, Henry Ford solved the problem of flying debris by using a new technology founded in France called glass laminating. Windscreens made using this process were actually two layers of glass with a cellulose inner layer. This inner layer held the glass together when it fractured. Between 1919 and 1929, Ford ordered the use of laminated glass on all of his vehicles.[1]
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