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The Yaris, in its crash with the Camry, lost a door and, despite the airbag, also forced the dummy’s head against the steering wheel. Excessive head and neck injuries, plus deep gashes on the right knee of the dummy, were also reported.
Honda’s Fit fared slightly better in its crash with the Accord (the Fit is the safest minicar sold in the U.S., according to IIHS safety ratings), but the dummy’s head struck the steering wheel through the airbag, and Institute testers recorded a “high risk of leg injury in a real-world crash of similar severity.”
In the crash test between the C-Class and Fortwo, for example, the Smart bounced off the C-Class and turned 450 degrees before landing and displacing the instrument panel and steering wheel through the cockpit. The C-Class had almost no intrusion of the front gears into the passenger area.