Insurance Institute for Highway Safety - Because Safety Matters!
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety focuses on road safety
and preventing accidents.
They are a non-profit organization
who are funded by the auto insurance companies. The Insurance Insitute
for Highway Safety consider their primary remit to be be to help
to reduce loss of life, accidents and property damage caused by
crashes on the US roads. And in order to facilitate this worthy
aim they offer a number of different services and information that
the general public can avail themselves of.
Amongst these are crash tests done on different
models of cars to see how they cope with side and frontal impacts.
These are done at 'normal' speeds that a motorist might reasonably
expect to be travelling at. 40mph for the frontal test, and 31mph
for the side impact test. And they have lists of literally hundreds
of makes and models of cars broken down so that you can check for
yourself how safe the vehicle you are driving is. Additionally the
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety also categorise the cars
eg small cars, large pickups etc so that if you are in the market
for a new automobile you can see what they made of your prospective
new car.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
also offers educational videos on all manner of different auto topics.
From learning about the risks to young drivers, right up to the
science involved in a car crash, and what the auto insurance companies
are doing to help to make the roads safer for motorists.
All in all the Insurance Institute for Highway
Safety offer a valuable service that can only help improve knowledge,
and expose vehicles that underperform from a safety perspective.
It is nice to know that the auto insurance companies are offering
something more than just auto insurance
quotes!
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