Highway Safety Ratings
We are in the early stages of shopping for our first class A motorhome. Where can I find the highway safety ratings for motorhomes? Thank you in advance for your help. Christian
Forum Discussion
Motorhomes in general are not all that crashworthy. A good bit of that is hard to avoid: there are a lot of loose or potentially loose objects in the passenger compartment to go flying around in a crash, and things that make for comfortable and usable living spaces do not always jive with what makes good protective vehicles. (A dinette without a table would be safer in an accident but less useful for eating. A vehicle without propane lines and tanks added on would be safer in a crash than one with them, all other things being equal.)
Motorhomes do not have a terrible safety record for at least a couple of reasons: first, most motorhome drivers are more cautious and attentive than car drivers while en route; and second, a motorhome is larger and heavier than most other vehicles, which is a decided advantage in collisions with other vehicles (but not so much with fixed objects like embankments, overpasses, or boulders).
The short version: please avoid crashing your motorhome.
Motorhomes do not have a terrible safety record for at least a couple of reasons: first, most motorhome drivers are more cautious and attentive than car drivers while en route; and second, a motorhome is larger and heavier than most other vehicles, which is a decided advantage in collisions with other vehicles (but not so much with fixed objects like embankments, overpasses, or boulders).
The short version: please avoid crashing your motorhome.
