Center for Injury
Research (CFIR)
The Center for Injury Research (CFIR) is a non-profit organization,
formed and initially funded by Don Friedman to advance automotive
safety in the face of continuing reluctance by vehicle manufacturers
to make vehicles safer for the citizens of our country.
CFIR’s immediate
goal is to raise money to build a device for conducting repeatable
dynamic rollover tests on motor vehicles.
The reason for building this machine is to be able
to prove that:
1. Roofs that do not collapse and buckle in rollovers are
safer than typical, weak production vehicle roofs.
2. Occupants are injured because production roofs buckle or
collapse into the occupant compartment, rapidly striking the
occupant’s head, not because the occupants fall into
the roof.
3. Vehicle manufacturers know that there roofs are weak, that
they subject occupants to severe injury, and that the cost
to improve them is negligible compared to the harm they inflict.
A group of individuals associated directly or indirectly with
the defense of auto companies in product liability cases recently
released a SAE paper announcing the construction of a test
device that will allow repeatable dynamic rollover testing.
The device, built by Exponent Failure Analysis Associates,
Inc., could be used for constructive research into rollover
occupant protection. However, given the history of that company
it is more likely that it will be used to “prove”
that vehicle occupants cannot be protected by stronger roofs
and that production vehicle roofs are adequately strong.
CFIR has plans to construct a roof strength development test
machine to provide a counter to this line of “research”.
The CFIR test machine will provide definitive evidence of
the role of roof strength in rollover occupant protection
that can be used to counter the “research” findings
of Exponent Failure Analysis.
We believe it is vital that we immediately raise money to
build the CFIR test machine to provide a counterbalance for
the upcoming regulatory issues and in the courts. The prototype
has been built and we believe that this machine will go a
long way to advance this goal.
CFIR estimates that the cost to validate the testing device
will be great, so please give generously.
We are on a crusade
to save lives in America.
Lives that shouldn’t be lost for pennies on the
dollar. Please
help us with our fight against the manufacturers that knowingly
scrimp on production costs to make more money, in exchange
for the lives of our citizens.
Click Here to
make your contribution online or please send your tax
deductible contribution to:
Center for Injury Research
510 S. Fairview Ave
Goleta, CA 93117
We all appreciate your help and cooperation
as we try to find ways to combat the combined
money and power of the Vehicle Manufacturers.
Sincerely,
Susie Bozzini
President, Automotive Product
Liability Research Center (APLRC)
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