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Many factors determine the safety of a vehicle. Prime among them are how well it can help you avoid an accident and how well it protects you in a crash. To compare the overall safety of a particular model, you would typically have to go to several different sources to get the information you need and then try to make sense of the disparate data. To help, CONSUMER REPORTS has created the CR Safety Assessment, which provides ratings for both accident avoidance and crash protection, as well as a combined score that reflects a model's overall safety.
If you compare the safety-assessment data on the following pages with the new-car Ratings on pages 36 and 37, you'll ...