If the middle back seat of your family car is the only seat that you manage to get with your bigger brother around - stop complaining. University of Buffalo researchers have discovered that the same seats are also the safest place in case of car accidents.
To discover this lesser-known truth, the researches took note of all car accident fatalities between 2000 and 2003. The record revealed that those in the back seat are 59 percent to 86 percent safer than the front seat passengers. Among the back seat passengers, the researches also found out that the one in the middle is 25 percent safer than other back-seat passengers.
Dietrich Jehle, M.D., UB associate professor shares:
After controlling for factors such as restraint use, vehicle type, vehicle weight, occupant age, weather and light conditions, air-bag deployment, drug results and fatalities per crash, the rear middle seat is still 16 percent safer than any other seat in the vehicle.
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