Tesla Model 3 Wins Top-Tier Safety Award from Insurance Group
- Sedan is one of three Top Safety Pick+, no-emission vehicles
- IIHS denied award to Tesla’s Model S in 2017 over crash test
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Tesla Inc.’s Model 3 earned a coveted Top Safety Pick+ award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, after the sedan performed better in a crash test than the Model S.
The Model 3 earned “good” crash ratings in each of IIHS’s tests, including one that measures how vehicles perform in front, driver’s-side-corner collisions. The Model S fell short in the small overlap test in 2017, with the group finding drivers could sustain a skull fracture.