What role does my windshield play to ensure my safety in an accident?

Few people realize that the glass in their vehicle plays an important role in the safety during a collision. Your auto glass provides 40% to 70% of the strength of your vehicle. In a rollover, the windshield helps the cabin maintain its rigidity, protecting the passengers. In vehicles with passenger-side airbags, proper windshield installation is especially crucial to ensure that those airbags function correctly. The windshield also helps protect you from flying road debris.

The windshield provides a significant amount of strength to the structural support in the cabin of the vehicle. For instance, in a front end collision the windshield provides up to 45% of the structural integrity of the cabin of the vehicle and in a rollover, up to 60%.

Think about that for just a moment. How would you like for over half of the force of a collision to be absorbed by YOU because your windshield flew out in an accident? It happens more times than most of us are aware.

The windshield is an integral part of the safety restraint system in your car. It keeps the roof from crushing in on you in a rollover, it allows the airbags to deploy in the correct position to cushion passengers, and prevents you and your family from being ejected in a serious collision. It's important to your family's safety that the auto glass in your vehicle be installed properly.

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