Unique Car To Transform Firefighters' Training
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A 'transformer' car custom-built by University of Derby students to help firefighters with rescue training is already attracting interest from other emergency services.
For their final year project Motorsports degree students have redesigned a Toyota Avensis so that hydraulic motors will rotate the front, and so that the roof can be folded back or lifted off and one whole side can be removed. It will be used by Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service to train their officers in how to extract people trapped in vehicles during a road traffic collision.
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