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Topic: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

	healthfinder.gov — Insurance Institute for Highway Safety - IIHS
		The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit, independent, scientific and educational organization, was founded in 1959 to research ways of reducing the incidence of, and the damage caused by, motor vehicle crashes, and to educate the public.
		The Institute has conducted research and compiled reports on such aspects as breath testing for alcohol, effects of strict laws on the incidence of drunk driving, driver education, occupant restraints, vehicle design, injuries, and bicycle and pedestrian involvement in crashes.
		The Institute publishes research results and produces films on crashes, crash tests, and roadside hazards.
	www.healthfinder.gov /orgs/HR0160.htm (162 words)

	Car Prices and Research - Insurance Institute of Highway Safety
		Their goal is to reduce injuries and improve vehicle safety, and since the VRC opened in 1992 the Insurance Institute has had a strong role in instrumented crash tests and component testing.
		Measuring 21,600 square feet, the Institute's "crash hall" is illuminated by 750,000 watts of glare-free light and is used for barrier tests, vehicle-to-vehicle head-on, frontal offset, and front-to-side impacts while vehicles are in motion.
		Though the Insurance Institute does label "Best Picks" in most categories, most of the grading in their offset crash testing is specifically related to the three criteria: restraints, intrusion and injury risk.
	www.autobytel.com /content/research/index.cfm/action/showarticle/AID/139027 (1747 words)

	Car Prices and Research - Insurance Institute of Highway Safety
		Their goal is to reduce injuries and improve vehicle safety, and since the VRC opened in 1992 the Insurance Institute has had a strong role in instrumented crash tests and component testing.
		Measuring 21,600 square feet, the Institute's "crash hall" is illuminated by 750,000 watts of glare-free light and is used for barrier tests, vehicle-to-vehicle head-on, frontal offset, and front-to-side impacts while vehicles are in motion.
		Though the Insurance Institute does label "Best Picks" in most categories, most of the grading in their offset crash testing is specifically related to the three criteria: restraints, intrusion and injury risk.
	autobytel.com /content/research/index.cfm/action/showarticle/AID/139027 (1765 words)

	ROCKCRAWLER.com - The Insurance Institute For Highway Safety Rates Four Large Pickups Good to Poor
		The crash tests were conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
		Institute and government crash tests complement each other: The Institute's crashworthiness evaluations are based primarily on results of the frontal offset crash test at 40 mph.
		The Institute's offset tests, conducted since 1995, involve 40 percent of a vehicle's front end hitting a deformable barrier at 40 mph.
	www.rockcrawler.com /features/newsshorts/01june/crash_tests.asp (695 words)

	First Selection of Top Safety Picks:Insurance Institute for Highway Safeth (IIHS) Announces 10 Car Designs That Win
		Winners of the gold award have earned good ratings in the Institute's frontal offset and side impact crash tests, and their seat/head restraints are rated good for protection against neck injuries in rear impacts.
		Top Safety Picks indicate the best choices for safety within each size class, but they don't mean a small car that's an award winner affords better protection than a larger car that didn't win a Top Safety Pick.
		The Institute offered to conduct early tests of any vehicles the manufacturers thought would be candidates for the award.
	www.insurance-canada.ca /consinfoauto/IIHS-Car-Designs-Win-512.php (1162 words)

	Safety Activism on the Information Highway:
		The insurance institution I pick was Progressive insurance This insurance program gave helpful hints into ways of possibly dealing with car emergencies.
		Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is the next insurance safety institute I picked.
		For the safety of motorist, not only car driver's has to be aware of road conditions, but motorcycle drivers have to watch for breaks in the roads and aggressive car drivers.
	www.soc.hawaii.edu /LEONj/409as98/jenkins/report2.html (3024 words)

	An Interesting Career in Psychology: Highway Safety Research Analyst
		I knew nothing about highway safety, but had all the right skills to conduct research, even though my skills were honed in a predominantly experimental setting.
		As is necessary for all research, to conduct highway safety research, one must be able to design studies applying basic scientific principles, to supervise research, analyze data, draw conclusions, and write reports.
		For example, Institute research is used by the federal government to inform the regulatory process governing vehicle safety standards, and at the state level, to design laws governing driver behavior.
	www.apa.org /science/ic-ferguson.html (745 words)

	Insurance Institute for Highway Safety :: Lexus GS Earns Top Rating in Demanding Side Impact Test (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ratings for the Lexus in the Institute's frontal offset and rear tests were released earlier.
		Beginning with 2006 GS models manufactured after August 2005, changes were made to the front seat-mounted torso airbags to ensure better protection of the abdomen in a side impact crash.
		In the Institute's test, injury measures recorded on crash test dummies in the driver seat and rear passenger seat were low in every category.
	sev.prnewswire.com /auto/20060131/DCTU02431012006-1.html (533 words)

	WebFirst : Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
		The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety turned to us for help in achieving increased webserver uptime with decreased staff costs.
		The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is a nonprofit organization funded by auto insurers.
		For over 30 years the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has been a leader in the research to prevent motor vehicle crashes and reduce injuries in the crashes that still occur.
	www.webfirst.com /generic.aspx?RequestID=86 (243 words)

	CARFAX Safety & Reliability Report - 1991 INFINITI Q45
		Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) uses a frontal offset crash test to estimate the crashworthiness of a vehicle.
		Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) conducts four 5 mph crash tests to assess bumper performance.
		This 1991 INFINITI Q45 safety recall information was provided by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Highway Data Loss Institute and is derived from the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration list of safety recalls.
	www.carfax.com /car_safety/ratings/SRR.cfm/year/1991/make/INFINITI/model/Q45 (1163 words)

	Response Insurance: CEO Appointed to Board of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
		The national Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced the appointment of Mory Katz to its Board of Directors.
		The influential safety organization is best known to the public for conducting crash tests to rate vehicles, researching traffic safety and driver behavior, and for their famous Crash Test Dummies.
		The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is a nonprofit research and communications organization funded by auto insurers.
	www.response.com /about_response/press_releases/katz_appoint_iihs.asp (287 words)

	Imports dominate safety list - The Boston Globe
		Imported models took all 13 spots on the U S insurance industry's list of safest vehicles this year, due mainly to a new requirement that all cars and sport utilities on the list have systems to keep them stable in an emergency.
		The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety isn't bashful about pushing electronic stability control, saying that its studies show up to 10,000 fatal crashes per year could be prevented if every vehicle had the safety feature.
		The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has proposed requiring electronic stability control on all new vehicles by the 2012 model year, but institute president Adrian Lund said that's not soon enough.
	www.boston.com /business/globe/articles/2006/11/21/imports_dominate_safety_list (296 words)

	Dateline Interactive: Truck Crashes
		The Institute, which is funded by the Insurance Industry, says the government’s test is a good way to find out if seat belts and airbags work, but says its own offset crash more closely resembles many serious real world accidents—where cars hit off-center.
		The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated important aspects of the crashworthiness of small pickups primarily via a 40 mph frontal offset crash.
		Upon reviewing the results of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's 40 mph offset frontal crash test of the Dodge Dakota, Chrysler Corporation has concluded that the test data is suspect with regard to the measurement of dummy movement.
	www.msnbc.com /onair/nbc/dateline/TruckCrash/default.asp (2247 words)

	Group Underwriters - Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
		For over 30 years the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has been a leader in finding out what works and doesn't work to prevent motor vehicle crashes in the first place and reduce injuries in the crashes that still occur.
		The Institute's research focuses on countermeasures aimed at all three factors in motor vehicle crashes (human, vehicular, and environmental) and on interventions that can occur before, during, and after crashes to reduce losses.
		The Institute's affiliate organization, the Highway Loss Data Institute, gathers, processes, and publishes data on the ways in which insurance losses vary among different kinds of vehicles.
	www.medialiability.com /highway.html (136 words)

	Safety drives car sales and insurance rates
		But it's not boring to insurance companies, which base their rates, in part, on the safety of the cars and their occupants.
		However, crash-test results are useful to the insurance industry if there's not a lot of real-life accident data on the newer models of vehicles.
		The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a government agency, performs full-frontal crashes and side-impact collisions and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which is sponsored by the insurance industry, tests vehicles in an offset-frontal crash, a more common type.
	www.bankrate.com /brm/news/insurance/safe-cars1.asp (1079 words)

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		The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's ratings reflect performance in a 40 m.p.h.
		Based on the results of this test, the Institute evaluates the crashworthiness of passenger vehicles, assigning each vehicle a rating of good, acceptable, marginal or poor.
		The Institute's frontal offset test is especially demanding of a vehicle's structure, as a relatively small area of the vehicle's front- end architecture is required to manage the crash energy.
	www.lycos.com /info/safety--highway-safety.html (367 words)

	III - Auto Crashes
		Red Light Running: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) says that more than 900 people a year die and nearly 2,000 are injured as a result of vehicles running red lights.
		Two groups conduct tests to determine crashworthiness—the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), which is an insurance-funded organization, and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
		Child Safety Seats: NHTSA says that in 2005 the lives of an estimated 420 children under the age of five were saved by restraints — 382 of them by child safety seats alone.
	www.iii.org /media/hottopics/insurance/test5 (3229 words)

	What Crash Test Scores Mean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		To evaluate head restraints during rear crashes, the IIHS places a dummy in the vehicle's seat, which is then placed on a sled that simulates a stationary vehicle being struck from the rear at 20 mph by a vehicle of similar weight.
		The Institute's test is so severe, in fact, that it is unlikely people who experienced such a crash in the real world would come away free of injuries.
		While you may not place safety over performance or comfort and convenience features when buying a new car, taking a look at the crash test scores — all of them — can certainly be an eye-opener when you are narrowing down your choices.
	www.edmunds.com /ownership/safety/articles/43804/article.html (3034 words)

	Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top 13-Safest Pick Awards - Insurance - Families.com
		This year the standards changed, and so did the way the Institute for Highway Safety ranks the results of their testing.
		In order to be selected as a "Gold Top Safety Pick," a vehicle must earn a top rating when tested by the Institute for side, front and rear impact.
		Winning a 2007 Top Safety Pick award, means the vehicle has to earn the best possible rating of "Good" in front and side impact safety and pass the test for whiplash protection for rear impacts.
	insurance.families.com /blog/insurance-institute-for-highway-safety-top-13-safest-pick-awards (481 words)

	Safe cars: Gold and silver awards - Dateline NBC - MSNBC.com
		For the first time, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has put together a list of what it says are the ten safest new cars in their class.
		Brian O'Neill, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: The sort of crash, where one vehicle drifts across the center line, and they have a collision, driver-side to driver-side.
		For this test, the institute put the restraint in a middle position which O’Neill says protects the widest range of people, although it may not be the best position for the shortest or tallest drivers.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10282809 (1235 words)

	Ford Pickup Safety 'Poor'
		In 40 mph tests, the institute characterized the safety performance of the Ford F-150 and Dodge Ram as poor.
		Still, the institute's rating comes at a bad time, as the world's No. 2 automaker fights charges by tiremaker Bridgestone/Firestone that it is ignoring safety problems in the design of its best-selling Explorer sport/utility vehicle.
		The institute's crash-worthiness evaluations consist of three performance measurements: occupant compartment intrusion, injury measurements of a dummy in the driver seat, and analysis of how well the vehicle restraint system controlled dummy movement.
	www.yourlawyer.com /articles/read/8733 (1077 words)

	The Highway Safety Group
		The Best Highway Safety Practices Institute is a newly formed 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing best highway safety practices.
		Safety can only be achieved when sound engineering practices are allowed to overrule unfounded political conjecture.
		The IIHS is an insurance industry public relations and lobbying organization that publishes politically motivated faux studies to support, and promote, its collective self–interest, not the people or the general welfare of the public.
	www.hwysafety.com (670 words)

	Crash Tests: Small Cars Take Hit - CBS News
		The three cars were chosen by the institute to illustrate that cars must have a combination of a strong structure and side air bags to provide crash protection.
		The institute was most critical of the Neon, saying the car performed so poorly that the driver likely wouldn't have survived the crash.
		David Zuby of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tells The Early Show cars must have a combination of a strong structure and side air bags to provide crash protection.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/03/07/earlyshow/living/main678434.shtml (815 words)

	ConsumerReports.org - Safety group reduces front-crash testing 4/06
		The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), a safety research organization funded by automobile insurance companies, will now rate some vehicles for front crashworthiness based on tests conducted by the automakers, rather than on its own tests.
		When the Institute first began its offset-frontal-crash testing in 1995, only three vehicles of 14 tested got a Good rating, and four were Acceptable, says IIHS president Adrian Lund.
		It also plans to develop other safety tests to replicate crashes into poles and trees; tests of new electronic safety systems such as active cruise control, lane departure warning systems, and adaptive headlights; and possibly rollover roof strength tests.
	www.consumerreports.org /cro/cars/safety-recalls/safety-group-reduces-frontcrash-testing-406.htm (629 words)

	Insurance Institute: Ten safest cars - Dec. 5, 2005
		The Institute did not choose any pickups or SUVs because side-impact tests on most of these vehicles have not been completed yet.
		Automakers were told earlier this year that the Institute would be giving special recognition to cars that performed best on the Institute's safety tests.
		The Institute offered to conduct early tests on any vehicle a manufacturer felt might win a safety award.
	money.cnn.com /2005/12/04/Autos/iihs_top_safety/index.htm (658 words)

	Ford takes Edge in safety tests - CNN.com
		To earn a "Top safety pick" a vehicle must earn the best possible rating of "Good" for all three types of impact and must be available with electronic stability control, a system that helps avoid skids or rollovers during abrupt maneuvers.
		A study performed last year by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety indicated that crash deaths on American roads could be reduced by one third if all vehicles were equipped with electronic stability control.
		The Edge and Fusion were tested outside the Institute's normal crash test schedule at the request of Ford Motor Co. When companies request crash tests outside the Institute's normal testing schedule, the car company is required to reimburse the Institute for the cost of the vehicles tested.
	www.cnn.com /2007/AUTOS/02/05/edge_crash_test/index.html?eref=rss_topstories (580 words)

	2004 Car Guide
		Personal injury loss statistics that are average, better than average or substantially better than average based on insurance company loss experience from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
		Driver death rate statistics that are average, better than average or substantially better than average based on information from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safty.
		Collision loss statistics that are average, better than average or substantially better than average based on insurance company loss experience from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
	www.erieinsurance.com /SafeCsmr/CarGuide/2004/Default.htm (377 words)

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