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[IIHS and HLDI News] IIHS news release: Stronger roofs crush less, reducing the risk that people will be injured by contact with the roof itself. Stronger roofs also can prevent occupants, especially those who aren't using safety belts, from being ejected through windows, windshields, or doors that have broken or opened because the roof has deformed.

[The Motor Report Auto News Blog] Roof Crush Strength Tested For Small SUVs In The US: Over in the US, while the government has stalled on introducing tougher roof-strength standards for passenger cars, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has gone out and tested 12 small SUVs for roof strength, indicative of roll-over protection.

[Drive Arabia Car News : Dubai / Abu Dhabi [UAE, Saudi, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman & GCC]] IIHS starts crash-testing SUV roof strength | Drive Arabia Car ...: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 2005 proposed an upgrade to cover these larger vehicles and require roofs on all passenger vehicles to have a strength-to-weight ratio of 2.5. Many vehicles already meet this ratio and would earn only a marginal rating in the Institute’s new roof strength test.

[Edmunds Daily] "IIHS Now Has Roof Crush Tests" Edmunds Daily: The IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety), a testing agency independent of the government's NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) has recently introduced roof crush tests to its testing regimen. As with their frontal-offset testing (the most common type of front-end collision), it seems that the IIHS has again topped the government in terms of offering more meaningful crash tests with tougher standards.

[Autosavant] IIHS Releases Small-SUV Roof Crush Test Results | Autosavant: The importance of strong crush resistance in SUVs should be obvious, but at the risk of belaboring that, I’ll go into it a bit.  First, SUVs - even small ones that are classified as crossovers in most corners of the market - are taller vehicles so are more likely to roll over than a conventional passenger car.  Second, the roof needs to be able to withstand multiples of the vehicle’s weight, because often times, when a vehicle flips over, it’s a dramatic, violent event - not usually a slow roll.  That violence is what makes it necessary for the roof to withstand multiples of the vehicle’s weight.  Think of knocking over a glass that’s sitting on the table - it will make a noise, it might spill your beverage, but it won’t break.  Now drop that glass onto a tile kitchen floor - you get a very different result.

[Wheels] Some S.U.V.’s Don’t Do Well on Safety Test - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com: About 2.5 percent of all the crashes each year involve rollovers, but they result in about 10,000 deaths, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The agency said, however, about two-thirds of those killed in rollovers are unbelted and are thrown from the vehicle.

[CanadianDriver] CanadianDriver » General News » Four of twelve SUVs earn “good ...: Stronger roofs crush less, reducing the risk that people will be injured by contact with the roof itself, and can help prevent occupants from being ejected, especially those not wearing seatbelts. Any vehicle can roll in a crash, but the problem is worse in some types of vehicles: about 25 per cent of occupant deaths in crashes of cars and minivans involve rolling over, while SUVs jump to 59 per cent.

[NewsDaily: Top Headlines] NewsDaily: Four SUVs earn top rollover safety mark in U.S. test: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed in 2005 that current safety standards be raised to require that the roofs on all passenger vehicles be able to withstand a force of 2.5 times the vehicle weight without buckling enough to strike average-sized, buckled-in occupants.

[Consumer Reports Cars Blog] Rollover poses real risks; IIHS announces new roof crush test ...: A NHTSA standard (FMVSS 216) dating back to 1973 dictates that a force, applied at a load of 1.5 times the vehicle weight should correspond to less than five inches of roof deformation. In 2005 NHTSA proposed to upgrade the standard to require a strength-to-weight ratio (SWR) of 2.5, up from 1.5.

[Automotive Blogs] Subaru Forester Given Top Rating in IIHS Roof Strength Test ...: CHERRY HILL, N.J., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The all-new Subaru Forester was given the top rating of 'Good' in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's new roof strength rating system. Designed to help consumers pick vehicles that will help protect them in rollover crashes, twelve small SUVs were tested with only four receiving a 'good' rating.

[Gigababy Presents: Education for the driving masses] Gigababy Presents: Education for the driving masses: Out of 12 ...: However, the Institute used more stringent standards in its tests because it has long advocated for stricter safety requirements for the roofs of SUV/CUVs, which are more likely to rollover in a crash than a sedan. According to research conducted by the IIHS, rollover crash victims benefit from stronger roofs.

[Chicago Personal Injury Lawyer Blog] Car, SUV And Truck Rollover Accidents No Longer Being Ignored By ...: A final upgrade at roof strength standard was scheduled for fall 2008, but NHTSA did not complete the final rule and asked for an extension until December 15, 2008. No rule has been adopted as of now.

[What's Up : blog at wemotor.com] IIHS Releases New Roof Strength Test Results; 4 of 12 Small SUVs ...: So in an effort to increase consumer awareness and hopefully prod automakers into improving rollover crash protection above the America’s federally mandated standards, the IIHS recently created a new roof strength rating system and put 12 small SUVs and crossovers from the 2008-09 model years to the test.

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