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Citroen Basalt has become the safest coupe SUV in India. It has received a 4-star safety rating in adult and child protection categories in crash tests by the Bharat New Car Assessment Program (BNCAP or Bharat NCAP), which is applicable to all variants. In the crash test, the car scored 26.19 out of 32 points for adult safety and 35.90 out of 49 points for child safety.
The Basalt is the fifth vehicle and the first from Citroën to be tested at BNCAP. Earlier, crash test of Tata Safari, Harrier, Nexon and Punch has been done in Indian agency. All these Tata cars got 5 star safety rating in crash test.
Crash test of Citroen Basalt in Bharat NCAP.
Crash test of all four variants of the car was done The car was crash tested in August, but BNCAP released its results today (October 13). The Indian agency tested different variants of Basalt in the crash test. This includes the U and Plus trims for the NA petrol trims, as well as the Plus and Max trims for the turbo-petrol trims. Manual and automatic transmission options of these trims were also tested.
Citroen Basalt was launched by the French company in August this year. The starting ex-showroom price of the SUV-coupe is Rs 7.99 lakh, which goes up to Rs 13.57 lakh in the top variant. The car is equipped with advanced safety features with 6 airbags.
Citroen Basalt: Adult Occupant Protection Crash Test
- Frontal Impact- In the frontal impact test conducted at a speed of 64kmph, Basalt got 10.19 points out of 16. In this, the head and neck protection of the driver and passenger was found to be safe. At the same time, the safety of the driver’s chest was found to be marginal, while the safety of the passenger’s chest was found to be adequate. In the test, the driver’s and passenger’s thighs received a marginal safety rating. Apart from this, the driver’s right leg was given adequate safety rating, left leg was given marginal and both toes were given adequate safety rating. At the same time, the right leg of the passenger was found to have good protection and the left leg was found to have adequate protection.
- Side Impact Test – The EV was side-impact tested at a speed of 50kmph, in which it scored 16 out of 16. In this, the protection of the driver’s head, waist and hips was found to be quite safe, while the protection of the driver’s chest was also found to be good.
- Side Pole Test – In this test, the safety of the driver’s head, chest, waist and hips was found to be good. Based on the performance of these three tests, Citroen Basalt was given 26.19 points out of 32 and 5 star safety rating in the adult protection category.
Tata Punch: Child Occupant Protection Crash Test In this test, dummies of an 18-month-old and a 3-year-old child were placed on the child restraint system in the opposite direction. Basalt scored 35.90 points out of 49 in the child protection category, resulting in a 4 star crash test rating in this category. However, information about the levels of protection has not been shared.
Crash test process
1. For the test, 4 to 5 human-like dummies are seated in the car. There is a child dummy in the back seat, which is fixed to the child ISOFIX anchor seat.2. The vehicle is collided with an offset deformable barrier (hard object) at a fixed speed to see how much damage is caused to the vehicle and the dummy. This is done in three ways.
- In the frontal impact test, the car is hit with a barrier at a speed of 64 kmph.
- In the side impact test, the vehicle is hit with a barrier at a speed of 50 kmph.
- In the pole side impact test, the car will be seen hitting a pole at a fixed speed. If the car achieves 3 star rating in the first two tests, the third test is conducted.
2. In the test, it is seen how much damage was done to the dummy after the impact, whether the airbags and safety features worked or not. Rating is given on the basis of all these.
