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Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced the winners of Top Safety Pick award for 2008.

This award is given to vehicles that protect people’s lives best of all. Front and side impacts are especially dangerous to human lives; more than 85% of all lethal crashes were of such a kind. Rear-end crashes are not so dangerous to our lives but they are meaningful to our health and insurance companies. More than 60% of all insurance injury claims report strains of all kinds and concussion of the brain.

All winners of the award are proved to help in avoiding crashes. They are equipped with equipped with ESC, which helps drivers to control the vehicle even in extreme conditions. When a driver predicts possible impact he tries to avoid it instinctively; ESC prevents a car from spinning out during these emergency maneuvers. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety calculated that there would be 10.000 fatal crashes less each year if all vehicles were equipped with ESC.

It is very important to drive a car, equipped with latest safety systems. This is more important for the USA as SUVs are traditionally popular in this country and they have higher chances of roll over during a crash. So it is almost obligatory to have SUV equipped with ESC.

Car manufacturers have been working for a long period of time in order to safe people’s lives. Besides, they save the money of insurers helping to avoid crashes and our money as we pay less for the insurance.

In future Insurance rates will be notably decreased for the owners of “safe” vehicles present in the list below.

The list of winners:

Large cars:
Audi A6
Ford Taurus with optional electronic stability control
Mercury Sable with optional electronic stability control
Volvo S80

Midsize cars:
Audi A3, A4
Honda Accord
Saab 9-3
Subaru Legacy with optional electronic stability control

Midsize convertibles:
Saab 9-3
Volvo C70

Small cars:
Subaru Impreza with optional electronic stability control

Minivans:
Honda Odyssey
Hyundai Entourage
Kia Sedona

Midsize SUVs:
Acura MDX, RDX
BMW X3, X5
Ford Edge, Taurus X
Honda Pilot
Hyundai Santa Fe
Hyundai Veracruz built after August 2007
Lincoln MKX
Mercedes M class
Saturn VUE built after December 2007
Subaru Tribeca
Toyota Highlander
Volvo XC90

Small SUVs:
Honda CR-V, Element
Subaru Forester with optional electronic stability control

Large pickup:
Toyota Tundra

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