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> While Brooke’s lap belt glued her waist to the seat, her shoulder harness went slack the instant the engine shut off.

Jawdrop ... what? Those things should be purely mechanical, locked in place by masses undergoing acceleration.

Shoulder belts requiring engine power is just monumentally stupid.



This was a case of 12V power disappearing to a lot of systems; that still doesn't explain the slack harness, but electric pretensioners would certainly fail to work in a crash under such circumstances.




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