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• n  a cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile's seat to prevent whiplash
• n  a rest for the head

• There are two speakers in the headrest and a subwoofer buried in the seat.
• Until last Saturday afternoon, when the luggage, a woman's compact, a headrest, began washing up on that shore, turning a wedding day into a wake.
• The cleverly designed seats have a headrest that bends to form a kind of a pillow: no embarrassing head drops onto your neighbor's shoulder.

• head restraint

News & Articles

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• Experts: Headrest might have saved Leffler
  Jason Leffler would have had a better chance of surviving his fatal crash in a winged sprint car in New Jersey if he had a full containment headrest similar to what is used in NASCAR, multiple safety experts told ESPN.com.
  June 20, 2013 - ESPN
• Experts: HANS might have saved Leffler
  Jason Leffler would have had a better chance of surviving his fatal crash in a winged sprint car in New Jersey if he had a full containment headrest similar to what is used in NASCAR, multiple safety experts told ESPN.com.
  June 20, 2013 - ESPN

Quotes

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• Jimmie Johnson in Richmond Times Dispatch
  The way these bumpers line up [on the Car of Tomorrow], I just put my head up against the headrest and just waited, because it was coming and it was coming hard,Johnson said. "I don't think I would have hit him as hard as many times trying...
• Tony Kanaan in New York Times
  After he was released from the infield medical center, Kanaan said of the accident: "I rested my head on the headrest and closed my eyes. I knew it was going to be a big one."
• Mark Webber in ITV.com
  I had to make two pit stops on the first two laps, so it was all over from there,said Webber. "On the first lap, the headrest came loose in the car, so I had to come in and get that fixed. I went back out, but the same thing happened so I...