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Exclusive - Rollover Test: Honda is Best While GM Gets Lowest Score Reports just-auto.com

10 January 2001

Exclusive - Rollover Test: Honda is Best While GM Gets Lowest Score Reports just-auto.com

    LONDON, Jan. 10 http://www.just-auto.com -- General Motors
2001 two-wheel drive Chevrolet Blazer four-door and the 2001 four-door, 2WD
GMC Jimmy/Envoy received the lowest score in the U.S. Department of
Transportation's first report on passenger vehicles' resistance to rollover
crashes.  In contrast, the Honda Accord sedan achieved the sole five-star
rating.
    The report at http://just-auto.com/news_detail.asp?art=22039 says that the
2001 Ford Explorer, currently the subject of numerous lawsuits as a result of
rollover accidents, scored two stars only just beating the one star awarded to
GMs sport utility vehicles.
    More than 10,000 people die in rollover crashes each year in the U.S., the
NHTSA says.  Over 60% of SUV occupants killed in 1999 died in rollovers,
compared with 23% of car occupants.
    The ratings announced yesterday (09 January 2001) are intended to provide
consumers with a measure of a vehicle's resistance to rolling over in a single
vehicle crash.

    For the full report see: http://just-auto.com/news_detail.asp?art=22039

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