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A road organisation in Australia has created a mock-up of the body needed to survive a car crash. Australia's Transport Accident Commission (TAC) has called its human-looking 'Graham'. TAC commissioned a of Graham and released a video to educate road about road safety. Although Graham is humanesque, he is grotesque in parts and resembles a from a horror movie. The BBC says: "He has a head shaped like a , feet snarled like tree roots and a chest like a wrinkled battering ram." A spokesperson from TAC said Graham was designed to highlight how frail and the human body is when involved in a vehicle on the roads.

TAC commissioned artist Patricia Piccinini to create the for Graham. She collaborated with a leading surgeon and a road crash investigation to get the right look and build for Graham. She gave Graham a thick , a wider neck, an inflatable chest that acts like , and hoof-like legs that allow Graham to jump out of dangerous . TAC chief executive Joe Calafiore commented on why his organisation commissioned Graham as an educational . He said: "Cars have evolved a lot faster than humans and Graham helps us understand why we need to improve every of our roads system to protect ourselves from our own ."

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