{"id":101,"date":"2013-03-29T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/2013\/03\/29\/are-compact-cars-safer-than-suvs\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T00:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T04:05:25","slug":"are-compact-cars-safer-than-suvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/are-compact-cars-safer-than-suvs\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Compact Cars Safer than SUVs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently tested 12 compact cars in a severe small-overlap front crash test. Six of the cars received a score of Acceptable or higher, faring better than many of the sport utility vehicles and compact crossovers tested just a few weeks before. Some compact cars even received the IIHS Top Safety Pick award, the organization’s highest designation.<\/p>\n

 
\nSmall-overlap Front Crash Test<\/b><\/p>\n

The IIHS added a new test to their sequence just last year: the small-overlap evaluation. This specific test is designed to show the damaging effects of a collision on the front corner of a vehicle. The crash test is set up so that the vehicle is driven into a five-foot-tall barrier at 40 miles per hour, creating an impact on 25% of the front driver’s side. When the edge of the vehicle hits the barrier in this highly-vulnerable spot, it misses the crush-zone safety feature built into the primary structure of the vehicle, designed to reduce crash forces on the passenger compartment.<\/p>\n