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ArticleAugust 13, 2009

3-point safety belt from Volvo – the most effective lifesaver in traffic for fifty years

Few people have saved as many lives as Nils Bohlin – the Volvo engineer who, in 1959, invented the V-type three-point safety belt. A design as obvious as it was intelligent and perfectly suited to the seat occupant’s body. To this very day, the safety belt still provides the most effective protection in the event […]