The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety was established in 1959 as a non-profit organization, which focuses on safety reviews of new models in the automotive market. The agency has been crash-testing cars for decades in an attempt to evaluate their structural integrity and safety systems during a collision. We stumbled upon an old crash test video showing a Ford F-150 and a Mitsubishi 3000GT in a head-on collision. It’s painful to watch but there are some lessons to be learned, too.
We don’t know whether this crash test was conducted by the IIHS but from the video’s description, we know it was filmed at Exponent in Phoenix, Arizona. It is very difficult to determine how fast the vehicles were going before the crash, but reading through the comments under the video, it seems that somewhere between 45 miles per hour and 60 miles per hour could be an accurate guess.
