The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety names the 2016 Ford F-150 pickup a Top Safety Pick for SuperCrew and SuperCab configurations.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety names the 2016 Prius a Top Safety Pick+ award winner after the car excels in crashworthiness evaluations.
These ambulance crash tests by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) demonstrate the potential dangers to patients and emergency medical service workers in the event of a collision. The footage is followed by an artist's rendition of an ambulance built in accordance with a new safety design standard for ambulance patient compartments. Source: NIOSH, NIST. For the full story, click here.
The 2016 Ford F-150 will offer increased driver crash protection from the 2015 model, after the extended-cab model didn't earn the top safety rating in an insurance industry crash test, a spokesman told Automotive Fleet.
Ford's 2015 F-150 crew cab model has been named a Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, while the extended cab model was rated as good by the group.
The trucks’ newly released NHTSA scores come just one week after the Ford F-150 SuperCrew also drew the best-possible overall rating.
The all-new pickup, featuring a body constructed of military-grade aluminum, aces NHTSA’s frontal and side crash tests and earns an overall 5-Star score.
The number of vehicles earning either of two awards from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has jumped to 71 from 39 last year, giving fleet managers more choices for optimum protection in crashes.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety named the 2014-2015 model-year Infiniti Q70 sedan a Safety Pick+ award winner. In the small overlap front test, the vehicle maintained the driver space “reasonably well” and the crash test dummy’s movement “was properly controlled,” IIHS said. Here's video footage of that challenging test. For the full story, click here.
Test results indicate that automakers are making strides in adopting automatic braking technology, IIHS noted. Here's an IIHS video explaining the testing criteria and process.
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