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For all the people who take crash test 충돌 테스트 results into account when buying a new car, and there are a lot of them. Tonight, there’s new evidence that despite their size, some SUVs don’t offer the kind of protection and invincibility 무적 some people might think. In fact, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says none of the SUVs they recently tested will receive that highest rating. The story from NBC’s Tom Costello.

 

On I-25, outside of Denver, tragedy 비극 as an SUV slams into a parked highway truck. “The impact was so great that it split the car in half.” 36-year-old Erin Walsh killed instantly. One of 43,000 people who will die this year in vehicle accidents. Most in front or side impacts.

 

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s latest crash tests, those popular mid-sized SUVs. The good news? 5 of the 6 tested got high marks in frontal crash tests. Yet despite their size, some of the SUV’s side impact results were surprising. The Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Chevrolet Trail Blazer. Both earned marginal 최저의 scores, even lower than what the much smaller Nissan Versa scored last December. Inspectors 검사관 say weak side structures and the lack of chest and abdomen 배, 복부 airbags could have meant severe injuries.

 

They know that because these dummies 마네킹 are loaded with a quarter of a million dollars worth of sensors, in the chest, in the legs, in the head, and in the neck that measure the injuries a human might sustain <충격 등을> 받다. “We could be looking at multiple rib fractures 골절 and internal organ injuries.”

 

Airbags make the difference. The best performers in the side impact crashes all had full, if optional, airbag protection. The Nissan Pathfinder, the Toyota 4 Runner, and the Nissan Xterra. Chevy and Chrysler Jeep tell NBC News their SUVs meet or exceed federal highway standards. But from the Insurance Institute, more evidence that bigger doesn’t always mean safer. Tom Costello, NBC News, Washington.

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