Late last year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety made its moderate-overlap front crash test more challenging by considering the safety of a passenger in the second row sitting behind the driver. The agency just put 13 mid-size SUVs through the evaluation. Only four of them received the best rating of Good.
"All these vehicles provide excellent protection for the driver, but only a handful extend that level of safety to the back seat," said IIHS President David Harkey.
