.drivingdotca’s Lorraine Sommerfeld: “Everybody looks to crash test ratings to determine safety, but what if they’re not telling the whole story?”:
Everybody looks to crash test ratings to determine safety, but what if they’re not telling the whole story? Three years ago, I wrote a column after interviewing Suzanne Tylko, chief of Crashworthiness Research for Transport Canada. They perform work similar to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — they smash up cars to test their crashworthiness in collisions, and assign safety ratings based on the results.
Her qualifications matter: She works with statistics, which strips out bias. She isn’t belting dummies into test cars, and she isn’t crashing anything. Instead, her team take all the available information on fatal crashes from nationwide federal records required to be submitted to the U.S. Department of Transportation and NHTSA, and input known factors surrounding those crashes: Vehicle make, model and year, plus gender, age and size.
RELATEDLorraine Complains: Why there’s no such thing as a car ‘accident’Lorraine Explains: Think you’re covered if you’ve totalled your car? Read the fine print“We looked at over 150,000 records starting in 2001,” says Hubele. “Over 4,200 makes and model years were analyzed.” Newer vehicles may not have built up a full comparison model yet, but the site is by nature an information gathering entity. The more people who use it, the more data it will be able to provide.
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