Dodge Ram Receives IIHS Highest Rating

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March 20, 2002-The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety today announced that the 2002 Dodge Ram 1500 received its highest overall rating in crash performance for pickups tested.* Institute president Brian O'Neill said that the key to good performance in the offset test is good structural design.
"If a vehicle's front-end structure absorbs and manages the crash energy so the occupant compartment remains largely intact, with little or no intrusion into the driver's space, then the dummy's movement is likely to be controlled, and injury measures are likely to be low. In contrast, poor structural design means greater likelihood of poor control of the dummy and high injury measures." O'Neill says.
According to the Institute, an offset crash test into a deformable barrier is especially demanding of vehicle structure, and the 2002 Dodge Ram showed dramatic improvement in nine of 10 measures of intrusion and steering wheel movement.
Special Safety Features of the 2002 Dodge Ram include:
Front airbags: passenger airbag equipped with an on/off switch (regular cab models only)
Side curtain airbags: for drivers' and front and rear outboard passengers' heads (optional)
Adjustable brake and accelerator pedals (optional)
Rear-wheel antilock brakes
4-wheel antilock brakes (optional)

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