The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is making it harder to earn its Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick+ awards in 2024, challenging manufacturers to offer better protection for back seat passengers and improve their pedestrian crash avoidance systems.
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Small Vehicles Falter in Updated Moderate Overlap Crash Test
Most small cars don’t provide good protection for rear-seat passengers, the latest crash test ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety show.
New Crash Test Spotlights Lagging Protection for Rear Passengers in Small SUVs
The IIHS found that only two out of 15 small SUVs, the Ford Escape and Volvo XC40, protect the rear occupant well enough to earn a good rating.
Backlog in Federal Safety Rules Amid U.S. Car Crash ‘Epidemic’
As traffic fatalities spike in the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal agency in charge of auto safety is struggling with a growing backlog of safety rules ordered by Congress that are years overdue and estimated to save thousands of lives. A governors’ highway safety group says the United States faces a “car crash epidemic” at the… Continue reading Backlog in Federal Safety Rules Amid U.S. Car Crash ‘Epidemic’