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Global safety rating results confirm Volvo Cars’ safety leadership

Volvo S60 earns top result in severe offset crash test

VOLVO HELPS DRIVERS COMBAT HAYFEVER

Volvo Car Corporation’s pedestrian airbag: here’s how it works

VOLVO SAFETY WORLD FIRST SET TO HELP FURTHER REDUCE THE 1.3 MILLION PEOPLE KILLED ON ROADS

Volvo City Safety Technology Drives Down Chauffeur Company At Fault Rear Impact Accidents

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Volvo S60 and V60 get five star safety ratings in Europe and the United States

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Volvo S60 earns top result in severe offset crash test

Volvo Car Corporation’s leadership in vehicle safety is once again highlighted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). In the latest report the Volvo S60 is one out of only two cars to earn the best rating in IIHS’s new offset frontal crash test.

Volvo Car Crash Test

In the new test, 25 percent of the car’s front end on the driver’s side strikes a rigid barrier at 40 mph (64 km/h), with a Hybrid III dummy belted into the driver seat. The test is designed to replicate what happens when the front corner of a car collides with another vehicle or an object like a tree or utility pole.

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VOLVO SAFETY WORLD FIRST SET TO HELP FURTHER REDUCE THE 1.3 MILLION PEOPLE KILLED ON ROADS

The world’s first pedestrian airbag fitted as standard on the all-new Volvo V40 is the next step towards the manufacturers target that no-one should be killed or injured in a new Volvo by 2020.

Volvo Safety World First

The revolutionary new airbag is launched one year after Volvo, as a strategic partner of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS), joined road safety experts and MPs to set the blueprint in the UK for safer roads over the next 10 years with the launch of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety. Volvo’s new Pedestrian Airbag will go some way to help further reduce the number of fatalities involving pedestrians, currently 14 per cent in Europe and 25 per cent in China.

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Volvo City Safety Technology Drives Down Chauffeur Company At Fault Rear Impact Accidents

Volvo’s City Safety technology helps chauffeur company, Tristar, improve customer safety and reduce vehicle-off-road costs
Tristar’s rear impact accidents, where the driver was at fault have decreased by 28% in the first six months of trialling City Safety
From Spring 2012, it is planned that all of Tristar’s Volvo fleet will be fitted with City Safety*

Volvo City Safety

Volvo has helped high profile chauffeur company, Tristar Worldwide, meet its goal of improving customer safety and driving down vehicle-off-road costs by dramatically reducing its at fault accident rates and associated costs in the first six months of trialling Volvo’s revolutionary City Safety technology.

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Volvo S60 and V60 get five star safety ratings in Europe and the United States

Volvo Car Corporation’s safety leadership is once again confirmed by full star results on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Volvo V60 received five stars and has been named best car in the Large Family category in the 2011 Euro-NCAP rating.
In the United States, the Volvo S60 achieved an overall five star NHTSA crash test rating.

Volvo Safety

“It is very good news that our aim to offer customers the safest cars on the market is confirmed by several independent evaluations on different continents. However, this is just part of the complete picture of a car model’s real life safety performance and the effort we dedicate to offering customers world-leading safety,” says Thomas Broberg, Senior Safety Advisor at Volvo Car Corporation.

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