Colours Spazz Wheelchair Passes Crash Testing

By Gene Emmer - 2007-03-20 - Viewed 1551 times. Find more articles like this in our Disability Products category.

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The Spazz is one of Colours N Motion’s best selling wheelchairs. Its popularity is due to its lightweight and sleek frame and the fact that it can be custom modified and designed. But Colours wanted to prove that the Spazz is not just cool looking, it is also tough.

In order to demonstrate the strength and durability of its Spazz wheelchair, Colours N Motion sponsored a voluntary crash test. Scientists knowledgeable in the design and development of injury assessment tools such as anthropomorphic test devices (crash dummies), computer models, and associated injury criteria put the wheelchair through a test designed to Ansi/Resna WC/19 specifications, the industry standard in crash testing.

With a crash test dummy strapped in the Spazz Wheelchair, the researchers simulated an impact of 30 miles per hour (48kph). The researchers concluded that the crash test dummy was effectively restrained and that the Spazz wheelchair met all requirements for wheelchair dynamic strength.

John Box, President of Colours said, “Although special optional brackets must be installed on a Spazz to hold it safely during an impact, this crash test proved that the Spazz is a tough wheelchair and meets or exceeds industry standards for performance.”

About Colours N Motion: Colours Wheelchairs is considered a leader in the design of innovative active wheelchairs. From its inception in 1992 Colours’ main goal has been to improve the lives of disabled people though innovation in equipment and services to the disabled community. Colours’ wheelchairs are known to be lightweight, adjustable and customizable. Colours is rapidly expanding in Europe and the mid-East, but is still seeking exclusive partners in certain markets.

For more information about obtaining rights to Colours products contact Dr Gene Emmer of Med Services Europe GmbH About Med Services Europe GmbH: Med Services Europe is Colours European representative. Med Services Europe’s disability website is Wheelchair. Contact Dr Gene Emmer in Switzerland at +41764249963

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