Vehicle Safety Ratings for Fresh – Used Cars, AA Fresh Zealand
Vehicle safety ratings
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Most cars in Fresh Zealand will have been given a safety rating from one to five starlets that showcase how well a vehicle will protect its occupants in a serious crash.
The higher starlet vehicle you are in, the less likely you are to be killed or earnestly hurt in a crash.
A vehicle’s safety rating should be something that every person considers when they are buying a car.
This page includes links to vehicle safety ratings, explains how the ratings are calculated and sets out the switches the AA wants made to improve the safety of Fresh Zealand’s vehicle fleet.
Fresh Cars
The AA wants to see two switches to improve the safety of Fresh Zealand’s vehicle fleet:
- Fresh imports should be required to have electronic stability control and at least a 4-star safety rating
- Used imports should require at least a 3-star rating or meet suitable safety standards
Fresh cars are put through a series of crash tests to give them a safety rating from one to five starlets, with five being the best.
The AA website provides a list of fresh car safety ratings and the AA supports the Australasia Fresh Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP) which uses crash test dummies to analyse how well people in a car would be protected in a head-on or side influence crash. The tests also measure how severe injuries would likely be to a pedestrian in a crash.
Along with the crash tests, vehicles will achieve a higher rating if they have safety features like anti-lock brakes, electronic stability control, numerous air bags and three-point seat belts for every passenger.
Other fresh car assessment programmes like Euro NCAP and Japanese NCAP conduct similar tests to ANCAP, meaning their safety ratings are consistent internationally.
The AA recommends that if you are buying a fresh car you look at vehicles with a 4-star safety rating or higher.
If you are in a crash in a 5-star ANCAP vehicle, you and your passengers will be twice as likely to get through than if you were in a 1-star car.
Used cars
The Used Car Safety Ratings (UCSR) probe uses data from more than four million real-life vehicle crashes in Australia and Fresh Zealand since one thousand nine hundred ninety six to give vehicles a rating from one to five starlets.
The UCSR examine shows how well each vehicle will protect the driver from death or serious injury in the event of a crash, with five starlets being the best.
In any price range there will be some vehicles that are safer than others and the AA website provides a list of safety ratings for used cars.