Australia’s latest road safety campaign has a new face — and he is not a pretty sight.
In an effort to convince drivers that their bodies are highly vulnerable in road accidents, trauma surgeons, accident researchers and a sculptor have designed a model of what a person would have to look like to survive a crash.
The character they have called Graham is certainly the strong, dependable type but he is far from attractive.
He has a large, thick, shock-absorbing skull but no neck to reduce whiplash injury. His reinforced knees are bulbous. His chest has heavy bones and fluid sacks, like car airbags, that take the brunt of a collision.
His eyes are sunken for protection and his feet are like large, gnarled tree