Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Occupant Crash Protection
fmvss · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · Published 1997-03-19 · 62 FR 12960
Document
Document number
97-6954
Federal Register citation
62 FR 12960
CFR reference
49 CFR 571
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
fmvss
Sub-agency
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publication date
1997-03-19
DOT docket
Docket No. 74-14
Abstract
NHTSA is temporarily amending the agency's occupant crash protection standard to ensure that vehicle manufacturers can quickly depower all air bags so that they inflate less aggressively. The agency is taking this action to provide an immediate, but interim, solution to the problem of the fatalities and injuries that current air bag designs are causing in relatively low speed crashes to small, but growing numbers of children, and occasionally to adult occupants.