# Your highly rated car is still unsafe for rear seat passengers

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-highly-rated-car-is-still-unsafe-for-rear-seat-passengers/187774>\
**Category:** Safety\
**Created:** [December 6, 2022, 6:17am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-highly-rated-car-is-still-unsafe-for-rear-seat-passengers/187774 "2022-12-06T06:17:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheWonderful90s](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/thewonderful90s/32/29584_2.png) [@TheWonderful90s](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TheWonderful90s)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 6:17am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-highly-rated-car-is-still-unsafe-for-rear-seat-passengers/187774/1 "2022-12-06T06:17:02Z")

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This good article brought up some good points. Other than the obvious one about not placing crash dummies in the rear seats in American crash tests, it mentioned front seats collapsing back putting rear passengers in danger, which is something I hadn’t considered.

I’d also like to add that the increased rigidity or strength of the front end of vehicles, which is done for safety or to look better in a crash test, exposes the rear seat passengers to greater forces in a front end crash. It the past it was common for only the rear seat passengers to survive a severe crash. Today this rear passenger survival isn’t as common.

> **[Your Car With A Five Star Safety Rating Is Still Deadly For Rear Seat Passengers](https://carbuzz.com/news/your-car-with-a-five-star-safety-rating-is-still-deadly-for-rear-seat-passengers)**
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> Here's a fun fact for the day; the car that you bought because it had a five star crash test rating may not actually be as safe as you think for back seat occupants. The main reason why is that the NHTSA tests for impact survivability using crash...