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with a deformable barrier at approximately 64 kilometres

Subaru is the only manufacturer with
IIHS Top Safety Picks for all models for
the last six years (2010-2015)

per hour. According to the IIHS, the moderate overlap
test illustrates the structural integrity of a given vehicle
better than the U.S. government’s National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration’s full-width crash test, which
focuses more on the performance of the restraint system.
But the IIHS didn’t stop with the moderate overlap
crash test. “In 2003, we added the side impact crash
test. Then, the next year, the evaluation of head
restraints to see how they protect occupants from
whiplash in rear-end crashes,” says Zuby. “In 2009, we
added roof strength testing to see if cars were protecting
their occupants in a rollover crash and, most recently,
we added the small overlap crash test.”
To be at the leading edge of automotive crash safety
testing, Zuby says the IIHS is constantly looking at realworld data reported by police departments in the U.S.
The IIHS also looks a