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Safety - USA - Drawing More Insight from Crash Ratings?
USA -The Car Connection,by Bengt Halvorson/Informed for Life -4 Nov 2005: -- The non-profit group Informed for Life, has just released its combined RISK scores for many 2006 model-year vehicles. The group's RISK scores use a calculated composite of NHTSA and IIHS crash ratings, weighted according to actual fatality risk in accidents, along with known factors that raise the fatality risk in vehicles, like weight, the presence of stability control, and the presence of a side-curtain airbag... "There are 117 traffic fatalities a day in the U.S. What you're in makes a huge difference. If we could stay away from the models with the worst fatality rates, we'd greatly affect that number" ... "Automakers have figured out that safety is a selling point," said Dulburger, who referred to the frequent mention of crash ratings in ads. "Five stars is such a small part of the overall picture. You need to be looking at so much more"... The combined RISK scores are now indexed for 2006 so that 100 represents the fatality-weighted average - the lower the score, the better. See the Web site for complete details of how the scores are calculated... Below are the best and worst of '06, according to the system.
- Lowest RISK scores: Acura RL: 56 - Lincoln Town Car : 58 - Volvo S80: 61 ......
- Highest RISK scores: Honda Insight: 167 - Scion xA: 158 - Mazda B-Series: 152 .....
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