{"id":15040,"date":"2025-04-08T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=15040"},"modified":"2025-03-31T21:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T21:25:57","slug":"iihs-making-stronger-protection-for-back-seat-passengers-a-must-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/iihs-making-stronger-protection-for-back-seat-passengers-a-must-for-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"IIHS making stronger protection for back seat passengers a must for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iihs.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety<\/a> is making stronger protection for back seat passengers a must for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The organization is requiring better protection for second-row occupants for the 2025 Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick+ awards, encouraging automakers to make advanced seat belt technology and other safety innovations the norm in the back seat.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, only 48 models have qualified for 2025 awards so far, compared with 71 last year at this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re once again challenging automakers to make their new models even safer than those they were building a year ago,\u201d said IIHS President David Harkey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery vehicle that earns a 2025 award offers a high level of safety in both the front seat and the second row.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Institute\u2019s updated moderate overlap front test adds a second dummy seated behind the driver and emphasizes back seat safety. Last year, an acceptable or good rating in the updated test was a requirement for the higher-tier Top Safety Pick+ award. However, a good rating in the original test was still enough to earn the base award.<\/p>\n<p>This year, vehicles must earn an acceptable rating in the updated test to qualify for Top Safety Pick, while a good rating is required for the \u201cplus.\u201d The original test has been phased out completely.<\/p>\n<p>However the IIHS said regardless of a vehicle\u2019s performance in the updated test, the second row remains the safest position for children under 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is making stronger protection for back seat passengers a must for 2025. The organization is requiring better protection for second-row occupants for the 2025 Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick+ awards, encouraging automakers to make advanced seat belt technology and other safety innovations the norm in the back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":15041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15040","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\/15040","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}