Many modern smaller vehicles with questionable IIHS safety ratings include the 2025 Nissan Sentra, the 2024 Kia Forte, and the 2023 Subaru Crosstrek.

A wrongful death lawsuit filed in Utah alleges a counterfeit airbag turned a routine crash into a fatal explosion that killed ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is launching a new seat and head restraint evaluation targeting neck injuries stemming from rear-end crashes. Only four out of the first 18 small SUVs ...

The IIHS, or Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, periodically reviews its safety tests to ensure that its ratings reflect the real-world performance of tested cars as accurately as possible. It ...

Consumer Reports has long been known for ranking new cars based on their safety features, but for 2026, it's taking matters to a new level by scoring brands as a whole. On Tuesday, CR named Mazda as ...

WXIN/WTTV — The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is changing the way it tests vehicles for protection against whiplash injuries. The Institute said current crash tests are outdated and too many ...

For three decades, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has been smashing vehicles with an adult-sized dummy sitting in the front seat, simulating a type of head-on collision where two ...

“Safety isn’t just about crash testing,” says Emily A. Thomas, PhD, associate director of auto safety at Consumer Reports. “A safe car has predictable handling and braking, controls that don’t ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has started testing how cars prevent neck and back injuries caused by rear-end crashes to make our cars ever safer. However, of all the 18 small SUVs ...

Neck strains and sprains are the most frequently reported injuries in United States auto insurance claims, so the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)—the nonprofit safety organization funded ...

We look at the new test from the IIHS and compare the first 18 small SUVs it tested to our rankings. As vehicles get heavier, the energy transfer in vehicle-to-vehicle crashes increases equally. This ...