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A new partial test accident brings challenges for car manufacturers.
While most modern cars offer good protection in a frontal collision, security experts say small overlap crashes are a different story These crashes primarily affect a car outside edges that aren t well protected, according to the Institute insurance for Highway safety.
The IIHS released its findings Tuesday and said that only three of the 11 luxury and near luxury midsize cars earned good or acceptable rating in the new test frontal collision recovery.
Overlap accidents are responsible for a quarter of all fatal head-on collisions, and the new crash test found, most cars - are not prepared to keep drivers safe in one of these accidents - domestic and foreign .
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, President Adrian Lund Institute said in a news release small overlap crashes are a major cause of these deaths.
The key to protection in the accident is a strong safety cage that resists deformation to maintain survival space for occupants.
It's packing 101 If you ship 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, said Lund.
The IIHS also released a video with side by side comparisons of the dangers and damage between head on and overlap collisions Leading accident, the force is distributed over the entire front roll cage vehicles today cars are designed to absorb shocks in the center of the vehicle, not the corners.
The main thing that needs to happen to ensure better protection against collisions in these types of accidents is better safety cage, said Lund.
Only three of the 11 medium-sized luxury car companies reintroduced in the new test passed with good or acceptable ratings Acura TL and Volvo S60 earn good ratings, while the Infiniti G earns acceptable ratings Acura TSX, BMW 3, Lincoln MKZ and Volkswagen CC earn marginal notes The Mercedes-Benz C-Class, Lexus iS 250 350, Audi A4 and Lexus ES 350 earn poor All these cars are 2012 models.
What we are seeing is the Insurance Institute will push the industry in addition to improving protection against accidents in cars for the future, said Consumer Reports automotive deputy editor Jeff Bartlett The good news is that in the coming years, manufacturers will be looking very closely this and make changes that will improve their solvency of the accident.
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