What does a star with a strike-through indicate?
The car is awarded adult occupant protection stars based upon the number of points scored in the frontal and side impact tests. Where a star is struck through, this is done to highlight concern that there is a serious risk of life threatening injury in at least one vulnerable body region – these regions being head or chest for frontal impact and head, chest, abdomen or pelvis for side impact.
In the old method of rating, the final star was struck through if there was a serious risk of life threatening injury in at least one vulnerable body region. In frontal impact, the critical regions were the head and the chest; in side impact, they were the head, the chest, the abdomen and the pelvis.
