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In a 2009 Institute study of vehicles with good ratings for frontal crash protection, small overlap crashes accounted for nearly a quarter of the frontal crashes involving serious or fatal injury to front seat occupants.

In a release issued yesterday the institute said results from 2009 testing showed that small overlap crashes accounted for nearly a quarter of the frontal crashes involving serious or fatal injury to front seat occupants in vehicles that otherwise had good rating for frontal crash protection.

In a 2009 IIHS study of vehicles with good ratings for frontal crash protection, small overlap crashes accounted for nearly a quarter of the frontal crashes involving serious or fatal injury to front seat occupants.

Not exact matches

An analysis of 14 years worth of crash data involving Institute - rated vehicles shows that a driver of a vehicle rated good in the moderate overlap test is 46 percent less likely to die in a frontal crash, compared with a driver of a vehicle rated poor.

A new Institute crash test evaluates how well vehicles protect people in frontal crashes involving 25 percent of a vehicle's front end.

The number of drivers of 0 -3-year-old passenger vehicles involved in fatal frontal crashes has fallen 55 percent since 2001.

Because only 40 percent of the front end is involved, this test places a far greater stress on the structure of the vehicle than the federal frontal crash test.

Now, the IIHS has begun testing cars in a 40 mile per hour head - on crash test that involves only the left 25 percent of the frontal structure hitting a rigid barrier.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Drivers of vehicles with good small overlap front ratings from the Insurance Institute from Highway Safety can expect to be protected well in a frontal crash involving the left corner of the vehicle.