Sentences with phrase «rollover tests because»
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The vehicles earned the Top Safety Pick + award because they received good ratings in the Institute's moderate overlap front, side, rollover and rear tests, plus good or acceptable ratings in the new small overlap test.
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Top performance in the roof test is important because nearly 10,000 people a year are killed in rollover crashes.
All six garnered a Top Safety Pick rating (without the Plus), however, because they earned a «good score» in front, side, rollover and rear impact tests.
«Many SUVs didn't earn good ratings in our crash tests, and on the road they were more likely than cars to get in serious single - vehicle crashes, including rollovers, because of their higher centers of gravity.
Because crash test dummies aren't used, the static test can't directly provide key information about injury risk to occupants involved in real - world rollover crashes.
Because the small overlap crash test is so new, the IIHS only requires cars to score «good» or «acceptable» on it to earn a Top Safety Pick rating — provided they ace all four of the organization's other crash tests (moderate front overlap, side, rollover, and rear).