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发帖数: 19309 | 1 By Santanu Choudhury
NEW DELHI — Several of the most popular cars sold in India — including the
Tata Motors Ltd. Nano and the Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. Alto — failed to
protect passengers during collisions in independent crash tests on India-
made automobiles by an international safety watchdog.
The London-based Global NCAP said Friday that crash tests on five models,
which together made up about a fifth of the new cars sold in India last year
, showed that passengers risked death or serious injury in collisions at 64
kilometers, or 40 miles, per hour.
Global NCAP
“India is now a major global market and production center for small cars,
so it is worrying to see levels of safety that are 20 years behind the five-
star standards now common in Europe and North America,” said Max Mosley,
chairman of Global NCAP in a statement. “Poor structural integrity and the
absence of air bags are putting the lives of Indian consumers at risk.”
The manufacturers of the vehicles said they weren’t cutting corners on
safety.
“All our vehicles, including the Tata Nano, meet all Indian safety
regulations, including the frontal barrier crash test at 48 kmph,” said
Tata’s head of advanced product engineering Tim Leverton. “All our cars on
Indian roads, including the Nano, are engineered for safety in view of
Indian road and traffic conditions.”
India loses more than 130,000 lives to traffic accidents each year. It has a
road traffic fatality rate of 16.8 deaths per 100,000 people, compared with
about 10 per 100,000 in the U.S. and four per 100,000 for Germany.
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