Frontal offset crash test details
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 AutoToday’s passenger vehicles are designed to be more crashworthy than they used to be. Still, about 30,000 passenger vehicle occupants die in crashes on US roads each year. About half of the deaths occur in frontal crashes. Since the late 1970s, the federal New Car Assessment Program has compared frontal crashworthiness among new passenger vehicles. This program, which involves 35 mph crash tests into a full-width rigid barrier, has been highly successful in providing consumers with comparative crashworthiness information. It also has been a major contributor to the crashworthiness improvements that characterize recent passenger vehicle models.
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