Headrest of a vehicle seat with a supporting member

A headrest of an automotive vehicle seat which headrest has at least one bar and one supporting member, the supporting member being normally in a utilization position and which headrest, when the automotive vehicle is involved in an accident, leaves the utilization position and adopts an accident position in which the supporting member is located, when viewed in the forward direction, in front of the position the supporting member has in the utilization position, whereby the automotive vehicle seat has a backrest, the backrest has an upper edge, the at least one bar comprises an oblique portion that is located above the upper edge of the backrest, said oblique portion has one component in the forward direction and one component in the vertical direction, the supporting member comprises a guide region that conforms to the oblique portion of the bar and that is movable relative to said oblique portion, an elastic means is provided, which is disposed between the at least one bar and the supporting member and biases the supporting member in the accident position and a releasable locking device is provided, which locking device being associated with the elastic means and normally blocks the elastic means, but releases the elastic means when the automotive vehicle is involved in an accident, in case of an accident the elastic means is allowed to cause the supporting member to move from the utilization position to the accident position.