No Mid-Measurement Truck Earns Prime Marks in IIHS’s Rear-Seat Security Testing

• The IIHS (Insurance coverage Institute for Freeway Security) simply launched a bleak report on the rear-seat security of mid-size crew-cab pickup vehicles.
• Among the many Chevy Colorado, Ford Ranger, Jeep Gladiator, Nissan Frontier, and Toyota Tacoma, none obtained the highest “Good” score.
• The up to date check provides a dummy within the rear seat behind the motive force in an effort to encourage automakers to enhance rear-seat safety.

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IIHS launched up to date crash-test outcomes that present mid-size vehicles wrestle to guard rear-seat passengers in front-end collisions. In reality, of the 5 pickups examined, which embody the Chevy Colorado, Ford Ranger, Jeep Gladiator, Nissan Frontier, and Toyota Tacoma, none obtained the highest “Good” score from the check. An IIHS report final month confirmed related outcomes for compact passenger automobiles.

IIHS security rankings are damaged down into 4 classes. The Good score is the very best accessible, adopted by Acceptable, Marginal, and Poor. Of the 5 pickups, the Frontier did the very best, incomes an Acceptable score. The Ranger adopted with a Marginal score, and the Colorado, Gladiator, and Tacoma all earned Poor rankings.

The less-than-stellar rankings for the mid-size-truck section stem from an absence of safety supplied to rear occupants, versus front-seat occupants. “A standard drawback was that the rear passenger dummy’s head got here dangerously near the entrance seatback, and in lots of circumstances, dummy measurements indicated a danger of neck or chest accidents,” stated IIHS President David Harkey. “All this stuff inform us that the rear seat belts want enchancment.”

The rankings additionally come on the heels of a extra thorough check developed by the IIHS, which provides a dummy behind the motive force’s seat. Whereas the motive force dummy is the dimensions of a mean grownup man, the rear dummy is the dimensions of a small girl or 12-year-old youngster. In response to the IIHS report, researchers additionally developed new metrics that target the accidents most steadily seen in back-seat passengers.

Within the up to date check, the Colorado, Frontier, Ranger, and Tacoma allowed the rear dummy’s head to come back too near the entrance seatback. The rear dummy within the Ranger did what the IIHS refers to as “submarining,” which causes the seatbelt to trip up from the pelvis to the stomach, rising the danger of inner accidents.

In response to the report, info taken from the rear dummy indicated a reasonable or possible danger of each neck and chest accidents within the poor-rated Colorado, Gladiator, and Tacoma and a reasonable danger of chest accidents within the marginal-rated Ranger.