and include data from the head and pelvis. A sideways-into-pole test was added, using the small adult female dummy. NHTSA's front-crash test accelerates a car straight into a rigid barrier at 35 ...

Yet it took until 2011 for IIHS to compare its considerable crash data against NHTSA's crash mortality data. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has been testing side-impact crashes since 2003.