are currently no uniform performance standards for pet travel safety products. in a first of its kind study the center for pet safety in partnership with subaru of america has been testing dog harnesses and results are downright scary. there is no guarantee that product will hold up in an accident. reporter: at the same facility used by the department of transportation, cps tested seven popular dog harnesses using a specially designed weighted test dog with a collision at 60 miles per hour and found only two brands provided adequate protection. many others resulted in catastrophic failure. one harness tears. another breaks. and in the worst case one comes off completely sending the test dog spinning through the air. eugene and chris thought their two dogs were safe when trapped in the back with this seat belt attachment, but last october eugene was broadsided while driving with the dogs and the attachment failed.
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is a safety focus group is making sure everyone survives an accident, even your dog. they tested a bunch of car belts and found that most of them are not, not very helpful in crash. just a note about this report. the dogs in the crash test look real but they re not. here is cnn s renee marsh. when i slammed on the breaks to avoid an accident maggie went flying. reporter: her english cocker spaniel was injured when she got tangled in the restraint. test video shows what can happen when a dog is launched off the seat during a crash. her organize, the center for pet safety started testing dog harnesses in 2011. all four tested failed. what we re seeing is that even though the dog is attached, the dog continues to launch off