2006 Ford Crown Victoria Severe Duty Police/Fleet Supplement 2nd Printing - Page 10

Severe duty equipment Trunk Packி and trunk loading Ford recommends that police equipment be both secured and laterally aligned. Hard, stiff or sharp objects, especially when not secured or properly located, pose a risk to the fuel tank and back seat occupants in the event of a high speed rear impact. After-market organizers that do not adequately deform in rear-impacts can themselves become injury-producing objects. When locating, securing and mounting police equipment, please review the ЉTrunk Equipment Mounting Guide,Љ available on the www.cvpi.com website, which provides recommended fastener mounting types and locations. Following the trunk packing recommendations, also on the www.cvpi.com website, is the most meaningful method of reducing risk. If your department practice is inconsistent with the trunk packing recommendations, then Ford suggests that you consider purchasing an optional drop-in Trunk Pack௢ to further reduce the risk of injury resulting from police equipment pushing forward into the back seat and/or fuel tank in the event of a high-speed rear impact. The Trunk Pack௢ provides more flexibility to officers transporting police equipment than the truck packing recommendations. To improve trunk packing by police agencies, Ford has made the following items available: • Trunk Pack௢ - a drop-in box with a tough plastic shell made of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE). It both aligns police equipment laterally in the trunk and utilizes a puncture resistant lining on the forward side of the box to reduce the risk of police equipment penetrating into the fuel tank and/or back seat in high-speed rear impacts. • Trunk Equipment Mounting Guide - an outline pattern with recommended fastener mounting locations in the trunk. The guide can be found in the Police Interceptor Modifier Guide and on the Internet at www.cvpi.com. • Trunk Packing Considerations - the following guidelines are offered to reduce the risk of unique police equipment items pushing through the fuel tank and/or back seat (see our www.cvpi.com website for more details). Trunk Packing Considerations A slogan has been developed to increase police agency awareness of the importance of trunk packing. 10 2006 Crown Victoria (cro) Supplement USA (fus)