During the
crash, the dummy's head barely contacted the
frontal airbag before sliding off to the left, and the side curtain airbag deployed too late (after the time
shown in the freeze frame) to offer any head
protection, leaving the dummy's head exposed to contact with side structure and outside objects.
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.