The curtain airbag did a good job of cushioning the heads of both the driver and rear passenger dummies. Plus, injury measures recorded on the neck, torso, pelvis, and left leg of the dummies all were low. Saab can still make improvements to the 9-3's structure, but in all other areas this was very good performance.
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