2003 Chevrolet Silverado Vs. 2002 Ford Focus NHTSA Full Frontal Impact

The bullet vehicle was moving at 52.0 km/h while the target vehicle was moving at 76.7 km/h.

Focus Information
HIC 2948-1183
Chest G's 108-72
Left Femur 3642-6530
Right Femur 5809-5857

Silverado Information
HIC 970-737
Chest G's 57-53
Left Femur 4924-5204
Right Femur 8470-3776

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Autos & Vehicles

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• car
• sedan
• ford
• focus
• truck
• chevrolet
• silverado
• crash
• test
• full
• frontal
• impact
• unsafe
• incompatibility
• override
• dual
• airbags
• fatal
• nhtsa

[98MAzdaMilleniaS]

@KillanatorVids

That's simply not true. The IIHS tests SUVs and trucks against a near solid concrete wall at 40 mph, just as they do with cars, replicating a similar size vehicle. The SUVs typically do better because it has larger crumple zones, meaning more room to slow down and less forces enacted on you, the driver.

[01Tobz]

DAMN like a good neighbor state farm is there

[PineAppleEx420]

@yellowmusicfreak Correction: all you need to stop a tiny ford moving at 77km/h is a big chevy moving at only 52 km/h.

[emersondavis]

I Don't Like Full Frontal Impacts. They ALMOST Never happen In Real Life.

[yellowmusicfreak]

Apparently all ya need to stop a 4500lb Chevy is a 2500lb Ford. About right;-)

[friedchicken1981]

@toommyy100 yup, windshields consist of 2 layers of glass glued together, so the special glue in the middle keeps them from breaking in blocks and minimize the risk of injuring the occupants :)

[amokachi31]

@toommyy100 actually it was broken. but not disintegrated because of the mica layer which holds 2 thin glass layers from being disintegrated and cause the driver-passenger to be damaged by glass cuts.

[toommyy100]

i didnt know the windsheild could flex like that with out breaking

[PianoShapedObject]

@yellowmusicfreak They're both totaled but I don't think the driver of the truck is going to be feeling it in the morning quite so badly as the driver in the Focus.

[CarPro1993]

@Atheist18505

NHTSA's general testing for a vehicle is all done under FMVSS regulations. There are several different kinds of destructive testing. Under FMVSS 208, there is a 35 Mp/h Standard Full-Frontal and a 20-30 Mp/h Unbelted Full-Frontal. Under FMVSS 214, there is a Static door crush, a 52.5 Km/h Side Impact, 61.5 Km/h Standard Side Impact, and a 32 Km/h Standard Pole Test. Finally under FMVSS 301 there is the static rollover, 30 Mp/h Full-Rear, and a 50 Mp/h 70% offset rear impact.

[Atheist18505]

@CarPro1993 Yup agree, the NHTSA tests focus more on a vehicle's Active/Passive restraint systems. IIHS is more focused on vehicle's structural integrity, Both are good test's, the IIHS seems to test their vehicles on once, but NHTSA I believe per federal law must test at a min 15 times per vehicle. In my opinion cars are by far safer than trucks in most/all types of crashes. Thanks again for the video's man, as always subscribed.

[CarPro1993]

@Atheist18505

Even though IIHS's test seems more rigorous on structure, it doesn't do what NHTSA's test does. NHTSA's 35 Mp/h full frontal puts more stress on the occupants. You have a deformable vehicle and a non-deformable wall; the stop is much quicker thus putting high loads on the occupants. For a 1998 Nissan Sentra for example, the NHTSA tests resulted in quite high HIC levels (850-900) for the driver and passenger, while in the IIHS test the driver's HIC was about half (450).