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Another 24 percent of the frontal crashes were moderate overlap crashes, although they likely occurred at much higher speeds than the Institute's moderate overlap test.

According to a study by the IIHS, small overlap crashes of this type accounted for nearly 25 - percent of frontal crashes resulting in a serious injury or fatality.

Not exact matches

Most of this improvement was in frontal crashes, in which driver death rates decreased from 86 to 41 per million (52 percent decline).

Small - overlap crashes account for about 25 percent of the serious driver injuries and deaths that occur in frontal impacts, IIHS says.

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.

Unlike the moderate overlap frontal crash the IIHS had been performing for years, in which 40 percent of the front of the car contacts a deformable (crushable) barrier, in this new test only 25 percent of the car's frontal crash area — the driver's corner — hits a barrier and this one does not squish.

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.

Controlling for differences in vehicle weight, driver age and gender, and other factors, the researchers found that drivers of vehicles with good ratings were about 46 percent less likely to die in frontal crashes than drivers of the poor - rated vehicles they crashed into.

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.

(In the small overlap crash test, the vehicle is lined up so that 25 percent of it — a front corner — overlaps with a barrier during a frontal, 40 - mph [64 km / h] collision.)

The «plus» in Top Safety Pick + is added if the vehicle scores an «acceptable» or «good» in their small overlap crash test, in which the vehicle is lined up so that 25 percent of it — a front corner — overlaps with a barrier during a frontal, 40 - mph (64 km / h) collision.

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.

Frontal airbags reduce driver fatalities in frontal crashes by 29 percent and fatalities of front - seat passengers age 13 and older by 32 pFrontal airbags reduce driver fatalities in frontal crashes by 29 percent and fatalities of front - seat passengers age 13 and older by 32 pfrontal crashes by 29 percent and fatalities of front - seat passengers age 13 and older by 32 percent.

The force of the deploying airbag (16 percent) and ejection from the vehicle (13 percent) also accounted for significant portions of the driver deaths in these frontal crashes.