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| Document Title | Proposal for amendments to Regulation No. 107 | ||||||||
| Reference Number | GRSG-108-31 | ||||||||
| Date |
4 May 2015
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| Summary | Incident reports confirm that occupants of exposed seats have been thrown forward during heavy braking or vehicle impact conditions, often sustaining head injuries from contact with the vehicle floor or other hard structure. Seats particularly affected are those located immediately to the rear of an open wheelchair or buggy space. This proposal aims to reduce this risk by extending existing requirements for exposed seats adjacent to step wells to apply to other exposed seats where there is a risk of the occupant being thrown forward. | ||||||||
| Source(s) | UK | ||||||||
| Rulemaking Area(s) | UN R107 Coach and Bus Construction | ||||||||
| Proposal Status | Superseded | ||||||||
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| Related Documents | |||||||||
| GRSG/2015/34 | Proposal for amendments to the 06 series of amendments to Regulation No. 107 (superseded) | ||||||||
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| UNECE server | .pdf format | .doc format | |||||||
| Excerpts from session reports related to this document | |||||||||
| GRSG | Session 108 | 4-8 May 2015 |
9. The expert from UK presented GRSG-108-31 amending the safety prescriptions for buses and coaches to ensure that all occupants of exposed seats, and not just those at risk of being thrown forward into a step well, were provided with a means of protection. GRSG noted general support on the proposal. The Chair invited all experts to send their comments to the expert from UK who committed to submit to the secretariat a revised proposal for consideration at the next GRSG session as an official document. |
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