building platform in back of minivan with (crash) safety in mind
I've been thinking about building a platform for the back of my Odyssey minivan, but I still need to keep the middle seats
the main purpose of the platform is to have a flat floor ( the odyssey floor is bumpy and so boxes and tubs go in all crooked, making it hard to stack
I see lot of build photos where the structure is super tough and rigid, but often it means there are all these long 2x4 or other poles that run long ways inside the cabin
I just imagine that these are going to be dangerous/deadly if there were a accident, like a rear end that crushes the back of the vehicle, these long bars are just going to be spears going thru the backs of the front and middle seats
does anyone have a build design that takes some crash safety into consideration, so that the vehicle occupants have a chance to survive in an accident?
for example, I've been thinking of my simple floor platform to not have large solid pieces of plywood for the floor, but instead cut them into narrow strips, so that if I get rear ended, the plywood doesnt shift as a large solid piece but a bunch of smaller pieces
trying to think of how to handle the floor beams that would normally go front to back in the minivan
anyone think of these things when they layout their car builds?