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Study links stronger vehicle roof to lower injury risk.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The strength of a vehicle's roof has a significant effect on the likelihood of death or serious injury to its occupants, according to a recent study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

The study looked at the roof strength of 11 midsize SUVs and data from almost 23,000 rollover crashes of those vehicles. Based on its findings, it estimated that making the roofs on every SUV it tested as strong as the strongest roof it tested would have prevented 212 of the 668 deaths involving these vehicles in 2006.

Automakers' previous studies had found no relationship between roof strength and injury risk. But the IIHS pointed out that, unlike the automakers' studies, its research was tightly controlled for factors that might confound the results.

The study indicates that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) underestimated the number of...

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