Helmet designed for emergency crash access

The helmet is designed to be quickly removed to allow medical aid at the scene of a crash.
Neil Dowling

Contributing Journalist

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The Voztec helmet, developed and now under test by NSW-based public company Voztec, is designed to be quickly removed to allow medical aid for the motorcyclist at the scene of a crash.

To put the helmet on or take it off, the rider opens or closes a hinged rear-section which uses an over-centre action to lock or release.

There's an integral chin cup but no strap and Voztec says it fits more safely and comfortably.

After a crash, the latch on top of the helmet allows the front to be removed seperately so paramedics don't have to cut off the helmet to help save the rider.

Voztec, which recently received Federal Government funding, says the helmet now is in its final testing stages.

Neil Dowling

Contributing Journalist

GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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