In their latest assessments, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has named the new Mercedes-Benz C-Class one of their Top Safety Picks for 2009. The news comes after the IIHS examined the C-Class in three categories – frontal offset, side impact and rear crash protection/head restraint – after which the sedan achieved top marks of “Good” in each.
In addition to the IIHS award, the Mercedes C-Class was also awarded five stars in the Euro NCAP (the European New Car Assessment Programme), making it one of the safest cars on the market.
To learn more about the Mercedes-Benz C-Class as well as its Insurance Institute for Highway Safety testing, keep scrolling for the official press release, or head over to the IIHS website where you can view results from each of the three crash test studies.
