20 Years for Safer Cars

Watch what happens when you crash a Ford Fiesta built 20 years ago into the latest 2018 model. Absolute proof of the huge improvement there has been in crash protection. These Fiestas were crashed into each other at 64kph and the results are spectacularly different. The 1998 Fiesta’s body shell has collapsed, the occupant area has caved in onto the driver. The risk of fatal and serious injury is extremely high. The body shell of the latest Fiesta is intact. All the airbags have deployed, there is just a crack in the windscreen. It is an entirely survivable crash. This is all a result of improved crash test standards that came into force in 1998, across the EU. We’ve seen benefit after benefit, year after year, tens of thousands of people have survived these kind of crashes because of these EU crash test standards.