VEHICLE CRASH TEST RATINGS
HOW SAFE IS YOUR CAR?
 The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is a nonprofit research and
communications organization funded by auto insurers. For over 30 years the
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has been a leader in finding out what
works and doesn't work to prevent motor vehicle crashes in the first place and
reduce injuries in the crashes that still occur.
Institute research covers three distinct areas:
- Human factors research addresses problems associated with teenage drivers, alcohol-impaired driving, truck driver fatigue, and safety belt use, to name a few.
- Vehicle factors research focuses on both crash avoidance and crashworthiness. Crash tests are central to crashworthiness research, and the Institute has been conducting such tests for decades to illustrate, for example, the importance of safety belts and airbags. This work expanded with the opening of the Institute's Vehicle Research Center and an ongoing program of frontal offset crash tests.
- Research aimed at the physical environment includes, for example, assessment of roadway designs to reduce run-off-the-road crashes and eliminate roadside hazards.
These and other programs help reduce deaths, injuries, and property damage from motor vehicle crashes. Reducing such losses is why the Institute exists.
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