IIHS unveils 2025 award winners

Mar 13, 2025 — With solid protection for second-row occupants now required for both Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick+, far fewer models earn accolades this year.

Allstate’s Purgatorio elected IIHS chair

Mar 5, 2025 — Ginger Purgatorio, executive vice president and general manager at Allstate, has been elected chair of the IIHS Board of Directors for 2025.

Kinsey, Lee to chair HLDI Board in 2025

Mar 5, 2025 — Jeff Kinsey of State Farm will stay on as HLDI Board chair for the first half of 2025. PEMCO's Dawn Lee will be chair for the remainder of the year.

Insight

Setting our sights on 30x30

Feb 20, 2025 — It’s time to get serious about reducing the toll of crashes. Let’s commit to cutting road fatalities 30% by 2030.

Fast improvements in front crash prevention

Feb 12, 2025 — Twenty-two of the latest 30 vehicles evaluated earn a good or acceptable rating in the new front crash prevention test, which requires systems to be able to prevent or substantially mitigate crashes at higher speeds. 

Extra large doesn’t mean extra safe

Feb 5, 2025 — The safety benefits of larger vehicles top out quickly once curb weights exceed the fleet average, a new IIHS study shows.

Insight

Getting smarter about brain injuries

Jan 30, 2025 — A new crash test metric is helping us assess the risk posed by head-whipping motions during collisions.

Comparing crosswalk signals

Jan 22, 2025 — Pedestrian beacons that cycle through caution phases before signaling drivers to stop are best for busy crossing points, while yellow flashers are better for areas with less traffic, a new IIHS study shows.

Reflective clothing confounds vehicle tech

Jan 9, 2025 — Reflective clothing makes pedestrians stand out to human drivers, but it may make them invisible to automated crash prevention systems.

Another 19 vehicles earn IIHS awards

Dec 17, 2024 — The 2024 winner's circle expands with 10 more vehicles earning Top Safety Pick+ and nine earning Top Safety Pick.

Vehicle height amplifies dangers of speed

Dec 10, 2024 — New pedestrian injury risk curves calculated by IIHS show that vehicles with taller front ends begin to cause serious injuries at lower speeds.

Keeping drivers switched on

Nov 26, 2024 — Drivers who are used to partial automation that turns off when they try to share control over the steering are less willing to steer or put their hands on the wheel in sticky situations.

Four vehicles fall short in IIHS tests

Oct 31, 2024 — The recently updated moderate overlap front test tripped up two vehicles, while another pair stumbled in the longstanding small overlap test.

Lax helmet laws come with deadly cost

Oct 16, 2024 — More than 20,000 motorcyclists who died in crashes in the U.S. since the mid-1970s would have survived if stronger helmet laws had been in place.

Automakers beef up seat belt reminders

Oct 10, 2024 — More than 60% of 2024 models tested so far earn good ratings, compared with 17% in the program’s first year.