For young children in the front seat, the first graphic is a child even wearing the lapbelt. Perhaps not the shoulder belt. Often times it doesn't fit this child properly. They get the rotation of the upper torso and the head during the drivers pre-crash breaking that at impact the child's head is hovering over the airbag housing, that is an uppercut of a rather serious boxer that causes these fatal injuries to these children. For the infant restraints, rear facing in the front seat, this is a problem that in fact the technical community did not adequately predict and we have rapidly been trying to educate parents they cannot have these infant restraints with the child's neck hovering over the airbag housing.
Women often times driving very close to the steering wheel can suffer significant injury.
This is an illustration of a woman suffering an injury not even from the airbag itself but from the airbag housing. If you don't have a sense of how painful these kinds of injuries can be the next time you are in your car just put your finger on the airbag cover right in the center of the steering wheel and imagine that coming into your face at about 200 mph. We did this all through a regulatory process that did not even take it into account the risk that might be experienced by women and young children. There are solutions to these problems, unfortunately we are working on these solutions now, five years after the regulation was adopted, scrambling to fix the problems we have created. It could have been done in a much more sensible way.