12 also provide at least a slight structural weakening of the unlatching rod 4 in order to facilitate the intended deformation as indicated by the illustration of fig4 here the deformed rod 4 u2032 comprises a bend 13 opposite to the free end of the protruding portion 6 of the impact member 5 the lever 10 of the handle module 3 is pivoted with respect to a pivot axis 11 hence due to a user initiated actuation of the handle bar 14 this lever 10 rotates with respect to the pivot axes 11 in a counter clockwise direction thus transferring a downward directed motion and a respective pivoting to the lever 9 of the latch mechanism 2 the crash induced deformation of the unlatching rod 4 u2032 as illustrated in fig4 provides an effective contraction of the unlatching rod 4 u2032 hence the effective distance between the coupled levers 9 10 is contracted or shortened and nearly any crash induced deformation which may otherwise lead to an unlatching pivoting of the lever 9 can be effectively counteracted and prevented fig5 through fig8 shows the impact member 5 in various perspective views as can be seen from fig7 the protruding portion 6 and the mounting portion 7 form an angle of about 80 u00b0 the overall geometry of the impact member 5 is thereby governed by the geometry of the outer door panel 15 and the geometry of the handle module 3 the mounting portion 7 of the impact member 5 comprises an aperture 19 which receives those portions of the handle module 3 that are adapted to get in direct contact with the inner surface.