Cars Ford Escape airbag fails to deploy in crash test The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's latest round of crash testing didn't go well for one of America's most popular SUVs.

When the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s “SORB,” the Small Overlap Rigid Barrier test, launched in 2012, many automakers were caught flat-footed, with vehicles that had been Top Safety Picks ...

These dummies were used in frontal crash tests, not just for identifying potential impact points. The mandated dummy, known as Hybrid II, was a 50th percentile male — in other words, the average ...

In the test, 25 percent of a vehicle’s front end on the driver side strikes a 5-foot-tall rigid barrier at 40 mph. A 50th percentile male Hybrid III dummy is belted in the driver seat.

Acura's airbag should improve results in NHTSA's new oblique offset car crash test by cupping the front-seat passenger's head and limiting their movement.

When the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tested a batch of SUVs in its small overlap frontal crash test earlier this year, it held off on putting the Toyota RAV4 in the blender because the ...

In 2012, (the same year the Model S was introduced) IIHS introduced the small offset, rigid barrier (SORB) test. This is a particularly challenging type of crash, but it’s not at all unrealistic.

In 2013, the IIHS added its so-called small overlap frontal crash test that replicated the effects of a car hitting a tree or utility pole on the driver’s side of a vehicle at 40 mph.

The latest round of crash testing by Global New Car Assessment Program, or Global NCAP, put the spotlight on a number of popular vehicles in the South African market, which by itself represents an ...