0 a part of a car that is designed to crumple easily in an accident and so protect the people inside from being hit too hard:
Improvements to vehicle design and improved car systems, including the pedestrian 'crumple zone' at the front of a car, are positive moves which need to be encouraged.
Classic cars often lack what are now considered basic safety features, such as seat belts, crumple zones or rollover protection.
Sensors placed in the crumple zone just behind the front bumper would be able to send signals to an airbag's 'central control' to indicate the scale of any impact.
The two key areas of misinformation and ignorance amongst among older people were about the safety benefits of airbags and vehicle design, including modern crumple zone structures.
The evidence is that with bull bars the crumple zone, far from protecting the vehicle and passengers, actually increases the danger to them.
They are not cushioned from it by the crumple zone.
But even if they did, to destroy the crumple zone that absorbs the shock adds to their own dangers.
Often, the very fitment of bull bars markedly reduces the safety design of the vehicle; that is, the crumple zone.
