IIHS now conducts two series of front-crash tests, one that engages 40 percent of a vehicle's front and a newer test, inaugurated in 2012, that uses a smaller overlap, engaging just 25 percent of ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and its challenging small-overlap crash test have passed judgment. In testing of nearly a dozen minicars, only one vehicle scored an acceptable rating on ...

The NHTSA uses two crash test dummies in the front row of a vehicle to determine the level of force applied to the head, neck, chest, and legs. Moderate overlap tests: Only a certain portion of a ...

The 214-series Executive Class leaves much to be desired in terms of dummy kinematics and passenger restraints in the updated ...

Show full PR text Redesigned Toyota Corolla earns marginal rating in small overlap front crash test The 2014 Toyota Corolla, a small car redesigned for the 2014 model year, earns a marginal rating ...

Even in a laboratory, car crashes are horrifically violent ... As with the agency’s recently updated moderate overlap front crash test, which added a passenger dummy in the seat behind the ...

The IIHS will begin evaluating how well vehicles protect occupants from rotational brain injuries.

The impact takes place with a 50 per cent overlap, because frontal ... introduced that includes the car to car test. It now feels like a new era of crash testing.” ...

All else being equal, a larger and heavier vehicle ... small overlap frontal crash tests that replicate hitting a tree or light pole. Of note, the IIHS recently updated its side-impact test ...