Escape tip

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[edit] Escape Tip - Automotive Safety Device

The Escape Tip is a safety device designed to facilitate emergency egress from an automobile. The tool is a seatbelt modification which is integrated on to the male ends of vehicle seatbelt buckles which are sometimes called latch plates. This arrangement distributes them throughout a vehicle making them available from any seat in a vehicle. This design empowers people who are trapped in vehicles under water or by some other constraint to break the vehicle's side window glass and make their escape.

Each year in the United States, approximately 300^[1] people perish entrapped in their vehicles under water according to NHTSA the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and their Fatality Analysis Reporting System website (FARS). Many of these people perish because of their inability to exit the vehicle in which they are trapped. An in depth article can be found at this external link for a technology magazine; http://www.gizmag.com/go/3557/