Crash test video ‘should make you think twice’ about riding in truck beds, NC cops say
The clip shows crash test dummies being ejected out of the bed of a truck that is sitting still when rammed from behind by a vehicle traveling 56 mph. One of the bodies is thrown so high that it leaves the video frame.
The video was originally posted to the N.C. Governor's Highway Safety Program Facebook page at the start of a Click It or Ticket campaign in May.
"It should make you think twice before climbing in that truck bed next time," the department wrote.
Though riding in the bed of trucks is legal in
"We highly recommend that the safest place for people to travel is in the cab of any vehicle and in the appropriate restraint based on age and weight," the department wrote in another post.
The law on riding in truck beds is similar in
Twenty states do not have laws on riding in beds or cargo areas of pickup trucks, according to the
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