Safest Family Cars
Everyone expects high safety standards from their car but once you become a parent, the safety credentials suddenly become even more important. Yet safety features aren’t always the easiest to understand, especially when every brand calls them something different! To save you the leg work, we’ve cherrypicked a fantastic selection of the safest family cars, based on everything from their performance in official NCAP safety tests to their available safety tech.
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Safe Family Cars: What to Look For?
The last thing you want to think about is getting into an accident on the road, especially when you’ve got the family on board. The good news is that car safety has advanced rapidly. Now, drivers have a range of intelligent safety tech at their fingertips to prevent an accident from happening in the first place. Plus, with improvements to build quality and airbag placement, you can stay protected even in the unfortunate event of an accident.
Below, we’ve listed the most useful features of the safest family cars. Many of these features can be found across the family cars listed on this page:
- 5-star NCAP safety rating: the European safety standard.
- ISOFIX mounts: securely fix child car seats in your car.
- Child locks: preventing the littlest passengers from opening the doors as you drive.
- Rear seatbelt warning: alerts you if passengers in the back aren’t wearing their seatbelt.
- Lane departure warning: monitors your position on the road and alerts you if you start to drift.
- Blind spot monitoring: get notified if another vehicle enters your blind spot.
- Automatic braking: reacting for you as and when you need it.
- Cross-traffic alerts: keeping you aware of other road users as you reverse.
- Cruise control: automatically adjusts your speed based on the road ahead.
- Reinforced chassis: to better absorb impact in the event of an accident.
To learn more about car safety, take a look at our guide explaining car safety tech and what it means for you, as well as our guide to Euro NCAP ratings.
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