This blog is not affiliated with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in any way, shape, or form. Information is taken from the publicly viewable NHTSA Database. Crash tests posted on this blog were conducted between May 21, 1979 and August 17, 1989 at a speed of 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers per hour) into a solid wall with dummies restrained by the vehicle safety belt system. Tests were conducted on the model year vehicle listed in the post and may or may not be accurate for a differing model year. Injury measures are likely accurate to a plus or minus 2% range - for example, a 26% risk of injury is likely in the 24-28% range. The five star system used for 2010 and earlier crash tests is used.

Injury risk:
10% or less - 5 star rating
11% - 20% - 4 star rating
21% - 35% - 3 star rating
36% - 45% - 2 star rating
46% or more - 1 star rating

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Some tests missing from 1979 and 1980 posts - working on "filling in the gaps"

There were three omissions from my 1980 NHTSA Crash Tests I posted that I am currently aware of. Two of the 1980 tests were missing chest injury data, so the injury calculation would be incomplete. I am also missing 4 1979 crash tests, two due to missing chest data and two due to missing data altogether.

One of the 1980 tests I have had the injury information for all along, but just forgot to post it in the original July 20, 2012 post. This test - the 1980 Mercedes 240 D - is in the previous post posted at 2:03 am Central Standard Time, December 17, 2013.

I will work on getting the missing data for the other six missing crash tests. Expect to see some or all of them posted when I find the data and do the injury risk calculations.
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