TummyShield Protects Unborn

Pregnant women now have a new option for buckling up. The TummyShield is a seat belt designed to remove the lap belt that could potentially hurt an unborn child during a collision — even a minor one. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, four out of five deaths of unborn infants occur because of vehicular accidents, and many of these accidents are minor. The lap belt is what does the damage.

Rather than having a lap belt, the TummyShield has two straps that buckle across the thighs, securing the passenger in the same way but without the risk of putting dangerous pressure across a woman's abdomen. The device is available from the manufacturer for $188.

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Comments

[bill]

an ingenious idea, I have actually gone through the technical data and the crash testing results on the manufacturer's web site (I also contacted the company and they provided me with more info.)and being an engineer myself I thought this is brilliant and it actually works judging from the data, being from Australia myself I am quite familiar with the labs where this devise have been tested, they're world class equiped with the lattest world approved test dummies.