{"id":14510,"date":"2023-11-30T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=14510"},"modified":"2023-11-30T15:04:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T15:04:28","slug":"iihs-study-finds-vehicles-with-higher-more-vertical-front-ends-pose-greater-risk-to-pedestrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/iihs-study-finds-vehicles-with-higher-more-vertical-front-ends-pose-greater-risk-to-pedestrians\/","title":{"rendered":"IIHS study finds vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too, according to new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).<\/p>\n<p>Whatever their nose shape, pickups, SUVs and vans with a hood height greater than 40 inches are about 45 percent more likely to cause fatalities in pedestrian crashes than cars and other vehicles with a hood height of 30 inches or less and a sloping profile, an IIHS study of nearly 18,000 pedestrian crashes found.<\/p>\n<p>However, among vehicles with hood heights between 30 and 40 inches, researchers found a blunt, or more vertical, front end increases the risk to pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManufacturers can make vehicles less dangerous to pedestrians by lowering the front end of the hood and angling the grille and hood to create a sloped profile,\u201d said IIHS Senior Research Transportation Engineer Wen Hu, the lead author of the study. \u201cThere\u2019s no functional benefit to these massive, blocky fronts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too, according to new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Whatever their nose shape, pickups, SUVs and vans with a hood height greater than 40 inches are about 45 percent more likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":14511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}