The safest cars, ranked against every vehicle

These 23 cars are ranked by how often their drivers die in real-world crashes. Unlike crash-test ratings, each one is also placed on a single scale with all 129 ranked vehicles, so you can see how cars stack up against every other kind of vehicle. The typical car scores 9 out of 100.

Safest car: Honda Civic hatchback, with 28 driver deaths per million vehicle years, 83rd of 129 overall.

Older cars

These cars only appear in the earlier IIHS study, so they're ranked among 2020 models.

• Chevrolet Bolt (2017–2020 models, score 83)
• Toyota Prius Prime (2017–2020 models, score 60)
• Ford Fusion hybrid (2019–2020 models, score 53)
• Toyota Prius (2017–2020 models, score 33)
• Subaru Impreza sedan (2017–2020 models, score 32)
• Honda Accord (2018–2020 models, score 30)
• Volkswagen Jetta (2019–2020 models, score 29)
• Ford Fusion (2019–2020 models, score 17)
• Kia Optima (2019–2020 models, score 12)
• Chevrolet Impala (2017–2020 models, score 10)
• Chevrolet Sonic (2017–2020 models, score 8)
• Hyundai Accent (2018–2020 models, score 7)
• Mitsubishi Mirage hatchback (2017–2020 models, score 5)
• Mitsubishi Mirage G4 (2017–2020 models, score 4)
• Chevrolet Spark (2017–2020 models, score 1)

Other vehicle types

• Safest luxury cars
• Safest sports cars
• Safest wagons and minivans
• Safest pickups
• Safest SUVs
• Safest luxury SUVs
• Safest large vans

* Driver deaths per million registered vehicle years.