iwish this were not true, but as they say truth is always bitter. The American insurance industry conducted side-impact crash tests of luxury sedans and from the whole lot the 2008 BMW 5 Series had the worst performance record. The Acura RL, Kia Amanti and Volvo S80 all earned the highest safety rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Cadillac STS and Mercedes E-Class earned the second-highest rating. The tests were designed to reveal what would happen if a truck or sport utility vehicle struck the side of the sedan at 31 mph, the speed of a serious crash. Side-impact crashes killed around 9,000 people on U.S. roads in 2005 and are the most common type of fatal crash after a frontal crash, the institute said.
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