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The video demonstrates how structural performance, dummy injury measures and restraint systems affect a vehicle's frontal crash rating.

Tags: IIHS, crash tests, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

The first installment of a new video series explains what kinds of dummies IIHS uses and how they help engineers evaluate vehicle crashworthiness.

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The Honda Civic two-door and four-door, Volvo XC60, Lincoln MKZ and Mazda 6 have all earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s top safety award.

Tags: IIHS, Honda Civic, Lincoln MKZ, crash tests, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Volvo XC60, IIHS Top Safety Pick+, Mazda 6

To earn the new Top Safety Pick+ recognition, a vehicle must pass the IIHS’ new small front overlap crash test in addition to IIHS' existing group of tests.

Tags: Volvo, IIHS, crash tests, vehicle safety ratings, Volvo XC60, IIHS Top Safety Pick+

The Top Safety Pick award recognizes vehicles that draw a “good” rating -- the highest rating available -- in four IIHS crash tests: moderate overlap front, side, rollover and rear.

Tags: IIHS, crash tests, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, IIHS Top Safety Pick, Subaru Forester

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) posted new data on motor vehicle crash fatalities from 2011. In 2011, a total of 32,367 people died in motor vehicle crashes, which is down 30% from 1975.

Tags: IIHS, traffic fatalities, fatal accidents, rollover crashes

To earn this new safety recognition level, all these vehicles have earned "good" or "acceptable" scores in IIHS’ new small overlap frontal crash test and top ratings in IIHS’ other safety tests.

Tags: IIHS, crash tests, 2013-MY, IIHS Top Safety Pick+, vehicle safety ratings

The 2013-MY Lexus ES, Hyundai Santa Fe and Subaru XV Crosstrek were given the top award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Tags: IIHS, IIHS Top Safety Pick, 2013-MY, Hyundai Santa Fe, Lexus ES, Subaru XV Crosstrek

Chrysler said that the all-new Dart received the maximum possible rating of 'good' in each of the four crash tests used by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

Tags: Dodge, IIHS, IIHS Top Safety Pick, 2013-MY, Dodge Dart

The report shows insurance claim data by vehicle type and details the vehicles with the lowest and highest overall losses.

Tags: insurance claims, IIHS, Highway Loss Data Institute

ARLINGTON, VA - The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said that 69 cars, 38 SUVs, 5 minivans, and 3 pickups earned Top Safety Pick ratings. The list of winners includes 18 new recipients for 2012.

Tags: IIHS, 2012-MY, IIHS Top Safety Pick

ARLINGTON, VA – The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) evaluated 13 small cars, six of which earned the organization’s Top Safety Pick award.

Tags: IIHS, IIHS Top Safety Pick, Small Cars, 2011-MY, 2012-MY, Ford Focus, Honda Civic, Hyundai Elantra, Lexus CT 200h, Nissan Juke, Toyota Prius

ARLINGTON, VA - Red-light cameras saved 159 lives in 2004-08 in 14 of the biggest U.S. cities, according to a new analysis by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

Tags: IIHS, camera, fatal accidents

A study by the IIHS finds that a vehicle rated "good" for driver protection in a side impact is 70 percent less likely to die in a left-side crash compared with a driver of a vehicle rated "poor."

Tags: driver safety, IIHS

Top Safety Pick winners group doubled in number from 2010, despite tougher qualifying criteria from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

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