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Do You Know How Safe Your Car Really Is?

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Do You Know How Safe Your Car Really Is?

One factor that most, if not all, car shoppers prioritize when looking for a new car is safety. We drive almost every single day and being on the road puts us at risk. This is why automakers send the vehicles they produce to certain private and governmental authorities to have them subjected to various crashworthiness and safety evaluations.

These evaluations comprise several crash tests that indicate the effectiveness of the vehicle's crumple zones, seatbelts, airbags, and more, to make it easier for shoppers to compare and find a safe car to buy. Here's how to check for a car's safety rating and how the safety report for those cars is determined.

How to Check Your Car Safety Rating

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety are the two official vehicle safety ratings agencies in North America. You can search for your car's safety rating on one or both of these agency's websites:


  • NHTSA - The NHTSA subjects most new passenger vehicles to its comprehensive evaluations every year, and those that come out tops are awarded 5-Star safety ratings. You can search for how carious cars have scored on these tests by heading over to the NHTSA website and looking under the ratings tab. Here you enter the year, make, and model of the vehicle you want to research. You can also determine whether or not your car has been subject to any recalls by searching by VIN number, or the year, make, and model of the vehicle.
  • IIHS - In a similar way, the IIHS allows you to search for your car's safety rating in the IIHS's database, and will also show you if the vehicle you're researching has been given any awards for safety.

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