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The standards only take into account collisions with cars in the same size class. That's why tiny cars can still have perfect crash test ratings but be absolutely destroyed in a collision with anything significantly larger. You can look at driver fatality statistics for various makes and models and the numbers for smaller cars are like 10-50x higher than larger ones.


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