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Letter: Safer bonnets

Published 7 July 2001

From Richard Chandler

The idea of modifying car bonnets to minimise the risk of injury to
pedestrians in accidents is excellent
(23 June, p 23).
I hope that the European
Union’s rules on safer car design will cover the “off-road” vehicles that are
shaped more like battering rams than cars.

Even more urgent is the need to ban the vehicles that still have bars on the
front.

Caldicot, Gwent

Issue no. 2298 published 7 July 2001

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