Ford Escape fails passenger crash test

The Ford Escape SUV earned a “poor” rating in a crash test designed to show how well front-seat passengers are protected in a violent collision.
It was the only small SUV in a group of seven tested to fail the test.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s new passenger side front crash test is, literally, the flipside of a test the Institute has been doing for five year’s on the drivers side. In that test, a vehicle is propelled at 40 miles an hour and strikes a bar