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IIHS finds most trucks, SUVs and minivans have poor head restraints
Over the past few years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has been testing the effectiveness of head and neck restraints in most of the new models that it puts through its battery of batterings, and with good reason. Rear-end collisions are the number one crash on American roads. The latest round of tests reveals that over 60-percent of new trucks, SUVs and minivans are scoring either marginal or poor. Of 87 models tested, 54 vehicles failed the test, while only 21 received the 'Good' rating from the IIHS. Among them was the ... Read more →
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Over the past few years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has been testing the effectiveness of head and neck restraints in most of the new models that it puts through its battery of batterings, and with good reason. Rear-end collisions are the number one crash on American roads. ...
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