§ Mr. Joplingasked the Secretary of State for Transport upon what evidence his Department bases its claim, in the current advertising campaign on seatbelts, that the combined effect of a head-on crash between two cars travelling at 25 m.p.h. is the same as that produced by a car travelling at 50 m.p.h. crashing into an immovable brick wall.
§ Mr. William RodgersNo such claim is made in the current seat belt advertising campaign. An earlier campaign included a reference to a head-on collision between two vehicles travelling at 25 m.p.h. producing an equivalent impact speed of 50 m.p.h. This could have been misleading and was withdrawn.