A new study credits the insurer-funded institute’s crashworthiness ratings with 48,352 fewer traffic deaths from 1999 to 2024 and an estimated $538 billion in societal savings.
Vehicle improvements driven by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s crashworthiness testing program have saved an estimated 48,352 lives, according to a new study the institute released to mark the program’s 30th anniversary.
Measuring the period from 1999 to 2024, IIHS researchers put the societal value of those averted deaths at $538 billion — a figure that dwarfs the roughly $600 million the institute collected from its auto insurer members to fund the work
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