2013 Volkswagen Beetle small overlap IIHS crash test
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety IIHS revised its crash test program, the introduction of a new type of assessment called the small frontal impact test duplication and renaming the old measurement frontal crash impact deported to moderate overlap frontal impact test.
Nearly every new car performs well in other frontal crash tests conducted by the Institute and the federal government, but we still see more than 10,000 deaths in frontal collisions every year, IIHS president Adrian Lund of the said small overlap crashes are a major source of these deaths This new test program is based on years of analyzing real frontal collisions, then reproduce them in our crash test installation to determine how people are seriously injured and how cars can be designed to better protect them, we think this is the next step in improving frontal crash protection.
The new small crash front cover of shock test is designed to assess what happens when a car, truck or SUV collides with a tree, utility pole or a vehicle coming in the opposite direction of the size and weight in the new test, an unoccupied vehicle is accelerated to 40 mph, and the left corner of the vehicle - which is 25 of the total width of the vehicle - is crushed in a barrier height of 5 feet for the test, the IIHS uses a male crash test dummy 50th percentile adult learn more about injuries in these types of collisions.
The IIHS explains that the key to the protection of occupants in every type of collision is an integrated solid roll cage in the structure of the vehicle that is designed to resist deformation and which maintains the integrity of the passenger As Lund explained is packing 101 If you deliver a fragile item in a strong box, it is more likely to reach your destination without breaking in accidents, people are less vulnerable to injury if the passenger remains intact.
According to the IIHS, modern vehicles are designed with safety cages and crush zones that are generally located in the middle of the front structure of a vehicle, leaving the vulnerable outer edges If a collision in a tree, a post or another vehicle on either external edge, the front wheel, the suspension elements, and a firewall absorbs impact force rather than a safety cage with a high crushing zone Typically these parts are not designed for the task.
These are serious accidents, and our new test reflects that, Lund said most manufacturers design their vehicles to ace our moderate frontal test coverage and test full-width frontal NHTSA, but the problem of low recovery falls down hasn t been addressed We hope our new rating program will change.
Notes for the first round of the vehicles to be evaluated using the new small overlap frontal impact test is complete, and only three of the 11 entry luxury sedans tested received a good rating or acceptable For more details and to see all the IIHS crash test ratings, visit.
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