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If you’ve anytime been rear-ended by an SUV while you’re in a car, the allegation of a new Insurance Institute for Highway Assurance (IIHS) abstraction won’t abruptness you. Still, the results, IIHS says, appearance that the federal government needs to alter bonanza regulations.

IIHS explains, “Bumpers are the aboriginal band of aegis adjoin cher accident in accustomed low-speed crashes. Bumpers on cars are advised to bout up with anniversary added in collisions, but a abiding gap in federal regulations exempts SUVs from the aforementioned rules.”

To appearance that the regulations charge to extend to SUVs, IIHS apish apathetic acceleration rear-end collisions amid SUVs and cars. The aftereffect of the collisions, IIHS says, were aliment that were abundant added cher than you’d apprehend from such a apathetic crash. Joe Nolan, IIHS’s arch authoritative officer, says “SUVs and cars allotment the road,” adding, “The botheration is they don’t allotment the aforementioned bonanza rules, and consumers end up paying the price.”

When a car rear-ends a SUV, “the bonanza of the SUV, which is aloft higher, bypasses the car’s bonanza and causes all-encompassing accident to the hood, engine cooling systems, fenders, bonanza covers and assurance equipment,” explains Kicking Tires. “The SUV doesn’t go home scott-free [when it rear-ends a car], either. Some SUVs concluded up busted afterwards the blow analysis due to a destroyed cooling arrangement as the Nissan Rogue accomplished in the tests. This was afterwards a 10-mph crash.”

“Of the seven pairs of cars damaged-for-a-cause in this annular of low-speed testing, the Honda Civic and CR-V performed the best, with bumpers that in fact overlapped by added than two inches,” letters Autoblog. “By way of contrast, the Toyota Corolla and RAV4 performed the worst.” According to IIHS, about $10,000 account of accident was acquired if the Corolla hit the RAV4 — $6,000 of which was to the RAV4. By contrast, if the Honda CR-V hit the Civic, alone $2,995 account of accident was caused. The Civic abiding $1,274 account of damage, the everyman a part of the cars.

IIHS is calling for the federal government’s National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration to adapt SUV bumpers and crave them to bout up with car bumpers. SUV defenders generally point out that alteration SUV bonanza designs could accommodation their off alley ability. IIHS argues that “bumpers aren’t the attached agency in a lot of vehicles’ access and abandonment angles. Instead air dams, bonanza covers, bankrupt pipes, and added trim army lower than the bumpers get in the way.”

Because so abounding SUVs are on the road, the allowance of colliding with one, even at apathetic speeds, are high. To abstain a slow-speed rear end collision, consistently accumulate a safe afterward ambit (at atomic two car lengths) amid your car and the one in foreground of you. Abstain distractions like talking on the phone, texting or eating. And, while a blow with an SUV may could could cause added accident to your car, accomplish abiding it doesn’t could could cause added accident to you: consistently abrasion your bench belt and accomplish abiding all your cartage do too.

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