Impact drivers: Your new car is less likely to kill you today than 20 years ago, and you have local research to thank


At the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Vehicle Research Center in Greene County, cars undergo rigorous and ever-evolving safety tests. Earlier this year, the 2015 Nissan Murano topped other small SUVs in a relatively new kind of front-end crash test. Photo courtesy of Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

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