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From: stan@clyde.UUCP (Stan King)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: new Flame topic: door locking
Message-ID: <307@clyde.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 16:08:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 16:08:38 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Feb-84 10:56:11 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Whippany NJ
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Can anyone tell me how locking your car doors can make an accident
any safer?  A recent contributor mentioned (and is probably not alone
in the feeling) that it is more difficult to be thrown from a car
with locked doors.

When a door is locked, doesn't that just prevent the door handles from
unlatching the door?  How many collisions jiggle the handles in the right
way so as to open the door?

I will summarize responses if there is demand for that.

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