One of the best indicators of overall safety car safety, the government crash test rating. All new vehicles will have these ratings readily available and is a great place to begin to understand what is new car safety rating. The National Highway traffic Safety Administration NHTSA or that you find in www.nhtsa.dot.gov/ is your first stop. The NHTSA uses two test methods to determine the lack of security of the vehicle, the full frontal impact and side impact. The NHTSA With a five-star scale, the greater the number of stars is the safest vehicle, the lower the number of stars, the most dangerous of the vehicle. You can find a diagram of the car safety ratings and grades in www.safercars.gov.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is another great resource to help learn about your car with safety rating too. The IIHS is a research group that conducts crash tests, too, but more for the insurance industry. A major difference on its frontal crash tests is that they use a more realistic test method offset. Instead of hitting the head, which is very rare in frontal accidents, the crash test drives the vehicle into a deformable barrier meant to simulate another vehicle moving at 40 mph and that the only barrier that covers the front of the vehicle engine. Most accidents are generally somewhat offset on the head that usually results in worse damage due to structural weakness and torque. The vehicle safety IISH evidence that copper and help us understand the true reality of the head in a collision. The IISH scores or ratings in their tests are classified by Good, Acceptable, Marginal or unsatisfactory. Read the rest of this entry »