Responsibility

It has been written much about the importance of the lap belt like security element that at the moment protects in case of collisions of traffic, carrying out itself multiple campaigns to us of awareness and sensitization on its use and being very intense the carried out monitoring by the Forces of Security to assure that the same takes place. But, What happens when this element fails at the key moment, that is to say, when an accident takes place, leaving to the occupant of the vehicle exhibited to the serious risk that indeed that belt had to avoid? The answer is very simple: a case will have arisen from Responsibility by Defective products of the manufacturer of the vehicle. Which is the real utility of the lap belt? As or you know, the lap belt intends to avoid or, at least, to mitigate the effects of the call second collision when taking place a collision or wreck. First it takes place when the automobile hits against another vehicle or object, being damaged body of the vehicle; whereas in second, the occupant of the same without subjection some to his seat would undergo a collision against the interior of this one or, in the worse one of the cases, she would leave dismissed through moons, hitting against asphalt. One calculates that with his use it is possible to reduce until a 45% the risk of death in this type of events, falling until in a 50% the probabilities of suffering serious injuries in so sensible parts of our anatomy as the brain, the skull, the lungs or the eyes.

Thus, although it is not infallible in any case, yes it allows considerably to diminish the devastating potential of a traffic accident. Which are the failures that could appear in a lap belt? The main failures that could occur in the manufacture or installation of the lap belt could be the following: 1. The nonintentional opening of the safety clip when the accident happens. 2. The false closed appearance of of this safety clip, when in fact it is not it. 3. The breakage of the tape that maintains to the subject occupant to its seat because of the violence of the undergone impact. When anyone of these circumstances happens, the occupant of the vehicle is exposed to the terrible effects of already mentioned second collision, with fatal consequences.

It would be then when he could be spoken of Responsibility of the manufacturer, when being fulfilled both requisite fixed for the same: a) The product, in this case the vehicle, presented/displayed some type of failure. b) Because of this failure, the consumer suffered damages of consideration in his person or her goods. In this way, he would correspond to this manufacturer to repair the caused damages to the occupant of the vehicle that had suffered the damages by the defective operation of the belt. He is possible to emphasize, finally, that this occupant would not have why to be the proprietor of the vehicle. Any person who occupied that seat in which the belt did not activate of the form due would have right to that repair, whose quantity will depend on magnitude of the damage that had been caused to him. Jose Alberto Andro Espina original Author and source of the article.