What is safety glass and how does it protect in an accident?
There are two basic types of safety glass. Plastic laminated glass is used for the windshields on all vehicles while tempered glass is used in side and rear windows of most vehicles. Plastic laminated glass either has a thin film of plastic sandwiched between two panes of glass, or a layer of plastic on the inside of a single pane of glass. The plastic keeps the glass from flying in all directions when it is shattered, and it acts like a barrier to keep the occupants inside the vehicle from going through the glass in a collision. Caution: On cars that have the plastic inner coating on the inside of the windshield, care must be used when cleaning or wiping the glass to prevent scratching the relatively soft plastic. Tempered glass, on the other hand, has no plastic in or on it. The glass is heat treated in such a way that makes it stronger, but also causes it to crumble into small rounded pieces when it breaks. This prevents long, jagged shards of glass from cutting you to ribbons. But
