The Kia Seltos has received a 5 star safety rating in the ANCAP crash tests. The rating is applicable for Australia and New Zealand markets. As the featured photo would suggest, the tested models include base variants too. Safety equipment included airbags (front, side and curtain), and active safety features such as Autonomous Emergency Braking.
The crash tests included frontal offset (64 km/h), full width frontal (50 km/h), side impact (50 km/h), and oblique pole test (32 km/h).
Adult Occupant
For Adult Occupant Protection, the report said that the passenger compartment remained stable in the frontal offset test, however, some intrusion of the firewall near the accelerator pedal mounting resulted in increased risk of injury to the driver’s right leg, and protection of the driver’s lower legs was rated as weak. Protection of the driver’s chest was adequate. Protection of the front passenger upper and lower legs were adequate. Protection was good for all other critical body regions.
In the full width frontal test, protection of the driver dummy was adequate for the driver’s chest and good for all body regions except the pelvis, which was rated poor. In the side impact test, the protection offered to all critical body regions was good, the report added.
Child Occupant
As for Child Occupant Protection, the report said that the protection of the neck of the 10-year old child dummy was rated as poor in the frontal offset test. Protection of the head and neck of the 6-year dummy was adequate, while the protection offered to all other critical body regions of both child dummies was good. In the side impact test, the protection of all critical body regions was good for both child dummies and maximum points were scored. More information here.
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