Five Volvo models get safety award
VOLVO is the recipient of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's (IIHS) 2012 Top Safety Pick award, confirming Volvo Car Corporation's leadership in car safety.
The US award recognises vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, rollover, and rear crashes, and no less than five Volvo models – the C30, S60, S80, XC60 and XC90 – earned a Top Safety Pick.
Volvo is the only European luxury brand with five awarded models in the new IIHS report.
"The risk of being involved in an accident or being injured in one of our latest car models has been reduced by more than two-thirds compared with a Volvo from the 1970s," says Thomas Broberg, senior safety adviser at Volvo Car Corp.
"Now, we keep on moving towards our safety vision that nobody should die or suffer serious injuries in a new Volvo car by the year 2020."
Volvo Car Corp's dedication to car safety has been recognised in several recent studies.
The XC60 is also the only SUV crossover with an IIHS Top Safety Pick and an overall five-star US NCAP rating. In the 2010 test, the XC60 received five stars in all individual crash tests, including five stars for the driver and five stars for the passenger in the frontal collision as well as five stars in both side tests.
Earlier this year, the benefits of the groundbreaking City Safety technology – featuring automatic braking in low speed situations – were documented in another IIHS report stating a reduction of the collision frequency of up to 22%.
The IIHS study of insurance claims involving a Volvo XC60 shows that City Safety reduces the costs for personal injury claims by 51% – while vehicle repair costs were lowered by more than 20%.
A similar study by the Swedish insurance company Volvia shows that Volvo cars equipped with automatic braking are involved in 22% fewer rear end accidents than cars without auto brake.
