Ford F150 and Honda Civic frontal crash test by IIHS

When large, truck-based SUVs collide with passenger cars or minivans, the results can be devastating for the occupants of the latter.

But fatalities in such accidents are on the decrease in the United States thanks to measures employed by automakers. Traffic deaths are down 64 percent since the year 2000 due to changes in automobile design such as lower bumpers for SUVs and better-protect cabin cells for passenger cars.

In 2000, the death rate for car and minivan passengers in collisions with trucks or SUVs was 44 deaths per million. That came down to 16 deaths per million by 2009.

The study was conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a private-sector group based in Arlington, Virginia.

"By working together, the automakers got life-saving changes done quickly," said Joe Nolan, the institute's chief administrative officer.

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[89foxbodysam]

ok they convinced me not to drop my truck instead imma give it another 3' lift lmao

[flight2k5]

@andyb0x how the hell did the truck beat the car in this?

[kvabate]

I want to see a raised civic into the f150...

[bigbob101010]

@89foxbodysam im gonna rasie mine another 5' so i can drive right over and keep going

[ALLEN80Z28]

@89foxbodysam please dont, if you crash into me youll destroy my camaro lol

[n9athan]

Guys stop looking at the f*** truck and look at the driver, both are damaged pretty bad. Lifting just makes it worse for both drivers.

[the454engine2009]

People in the F-150: "Okay just gotta screw this headlight back on"

People in the Honda: "Well, we are going to have to sell our house to fix this hood"

[sannyf2000]

This is a big issue as it shows the truck is getting the impact direcly at tis front suspecntion and the engine, not the body to absorb the impact, and same goes for the civic as it rides under the fords imapct zone and smacks straight in tis hard parts, now if only car endgneers did acomedate the design to make the trucks adopt to impact with a lower car.

Shure the ford loosk unscaved but imagine the neck injuries you resive as it dosent propperly absorb the force.

[trumpet12345]

all the idiots around here take engineering brilliance, the work of thousands of man hours- and ruin it with damn lift kits and bumpers that weigh 400 extra pounds.

[bobthebuilder6938]

did dam near nothing to the F-150

[ApSykesThewolf]

@CadillacDeadman24 but if you think about it, trucks they build rigid for towing and well.. crashes, sedan cars, reguardless of country, are built to crumple so it absorbs the impact rather than send all that shocking energy to the passengers, thats why most euro cars have ridges in the inner structure, so it crumples at that area to send all the energy under the people, and to the back

[CadillacDeadman24]

@ApSykesThewolf Yes, he likely will. But I'll take an American truck over any frail little foreign car.