The IIHS frontal crash test is run at a higher speed. But I like to look at the NHTSA numbers to get details.
For example, for a 5-star rating, you're still about twice likely to suffer head injury in a Camry than an Accord. And your chest needs to deal with 41 G's of deceleration vs 34 G's in the Accord. The midsize Malibu is closer to the Camry than the apparently safer Accord in these three examples. \
I'm however puzzled at the variance of femur loads on Camry's front passenger L/R. How can the left thigh bone suffer 804 lbs of load but the right only 233?
2009 Toyota Camry
Head Injury Criterion 505 522
Chest deceleration (g's)41 41
Femur load l/r (lb) 411 / 547 804 / 233
2009 Honda Accord
Head Injury Criterion 221 258
Chest deceleration (g's) 34 35
Femur load l/r (lb) 383 / 319 286 / 427
2009 Chevy Malibu
Head Injury Criterion 330 389
Chest deceleration (g's) 43 42
Femur load l/r (lb) 454 / 280 103 / 177
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Originally Posted by VenzaWatcher
The IIHS indicates that 09 camry has a "good" rating in frontal offset crash test against the wall. The result should still be true when Camry hits another vehicle with the same or similar body weight. However, IIHS did another test about the frontal offset crash test between Camry and the much smaller and lighter Yaris, and the camry's rating drops to "Acceptable". What happened here?
IIHS also did similar tests between Accord and Fit, and between Mercedes C300 and Smart car. However, Accord and C300 both hold the "good" rating after the tests.
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