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Renault Laguna conceives the first demontable for firefighters

Renault puts firefighters Yvelines (SDIS 78), the keys of a single straight out from the center of vehicle prototypes: a fully demountable and reusable Laguna.

Destinee has firefighter training, it can repeat all the gestures of aid road, including access to victims by passing phase extrication.

Thanks to this new action, Renault contributes to the goals of the UN Decade of Action with for road safety: reduce by 50% the number of victims on the world's roads by 2020.

"The maneuvers rescue very often require the partial or total decoupe of vehicles. Action irreversible course! The idea then came to design a completely dismantled and reassembled pedagogical vehicle, "explains Claire Petit Boulanger, referent to the Commercial Security Corporate Social Responsibility Enterprise (DRSE).

Renault has decided to provide technical and financial support to this project on behalf of the overall gait of the Social Responsibility of the Company). The experts of the Directorate Vehicle Engineering Prototypes, Electronics, Tolerie Hand, Paint, and Mapping "Mules" - then took over the file to meet the specification very precise specifications prepared by firefighters. The objective was clear: to have a vehicle quickly and completely disassembled and reassembled without tools. Among other requests, the possibility to easily move the vehicle and have seats that the file can be removed, while retaining all of their functionalities.

After seven weeks of work, the teams have met the challenge today and deliver the first model of Laguna "kit". The car has been relieved of unnecessary parts like the engine, the fuel tank or piece of safety such as airbags. The steering wheel and steering column function, which makes it easy to handle the vehicle. 

Accordance with the specifications, Laguna is fully removable in less than 5 minutes. A feat made possible through horizontal and vertical hinges affixed to the inside of the car that allow oter doors interior and trunk; Grace also has quick-release fasteners for mid foot. Finally, Renault caravan jacks up sodas under the floor to stabilize the vehicle in all situations and a smoke simulator allows firefighters to learn the first steps in case of fire.

This Laguna inedite is fully in the partnership signed June 21, 2012 between Renault and the National Federation of Firefighters of France, the Group is engaged in several projects enabling firefighters to act quickly in case of accident or fire vehicle: sale of vehicles but also development of pedagogical tools (film application on tablets ...), training in electric vehicles ...

Road safety is a fundamental part of the strategy of social responsibility Renault. This founded on respect for life and innovation at the service of man approach is at the heart of Renault's mission: "to make sustainable mobility accessible to everyone."

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