Whats The Safest Car To Be Involved In An Accident In?

[bobo101]

Just out of curiosity, what's the safest car (if any) to be involved in a high impact collision in. I realise that there is no completely safe car but what cars rate highly on crash testing?

[mrs_overall]

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/safest-cars-volvo-subaru-honda-ford/story?id=9729865#.UaR1MkCmhrU

[wolf63]

I would like to be in a Tank

[wolf63]

.... but I can't drive

[Hopkirk]

Probably a Formula 1 racing car - they always seem to walk away these days.

[Toureman]

These are the top 20 of the safest cars in the world, and it's not a Volvo...

http://autos.ca.msn.com/editors-picks/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=29144452&;page=1

Mine is 7th in theworld!

[jake-the-peg]

Well top 20 safest in America I think Toureman!

Here's the Euro Encap top

[andy-hughes]

Obviously the gas-guzzling behemoths that clutter up our road will be in the lsit - they are built like tannks.

But take comfort from a friend of mine travelling on the M6 behind an uninsured illegal imigrant driving some nail on wheels which stopped dead in the overtaking lane. Despite rear-ending the sationary heap at a speed ine xcess of sixty m.p.h., my friend and his three passengers emerged with bruises bot nothing else from their written-off vehcile.

The lifesaver was, believe it or not, a P-reg KA - so yoou just never can tell.

[jake-the-peg]

And while there are no totally safe cars going 80' off a cliff and coming out with 'cuts and bruises' is pretty impressive

http://www.landroverclub.net/Club/HTML/Wrecks.htm

[Toxophilus]

I turned upside down in a Saab and was totally protected. A passing lorry driver cut my seatbelt to enable me to get down from the hanging position and there were no injuries. The car was a write off but I am sure it saved my life.

[whiskeryron]

Safest vehicle http://tinypic.com/r/35335o7/5

WR.

[tonyav]

Is that a Churchill, Ron ?.

[whiskeryron]

Yep.

[SpikeyBush]

So many variables it is hard to say with certainty. I hit a Fiat Panda that pulled out in front of me in 1992 at 60mph. I was driving a Vauxhall Chevette that would, if entered into the Euro NCAP tests today, score bugger all. Yet I walked away with nothing but a stiff neck.