2008 Honda Civic

small car / 2-door coupe

Crashworthiness

Rating overview
Moderate overlap front: original test
Side: original test
Head restraints & seats

Key

  • G
    Good
  • A
    Acceptable
  • M
    Marginal
  • P
    Poor
  • Superior
  • Advanced
  • Basic

Some ratings use a scale of Poor to Good. Others range from Basic to Superior.

Moderate overlap front: original test

Rating applies to 2006-11 models

Tested vehicle: 2009 Honda Civic LX 2-door

The Honda Civic was redesigned for the 2006 model year.

Overall evaluation
Structure and safety cage
Driver injury measures
Head/neck
Chest
Leg/foot, left
Leg/foot, right
Driver restraints and dummy kinematics

Action shot taken during the frontal offset crash test.

The dummy's position in relation to the steering wheel and instrument panel after the crash test indicates that the driver's survival space was maintained very well.

Smeared greasepaint indicates where the dummy's head hit the sunvisor, roof rail, and grab handle during rebound. Head accelerations from these hits were low.

Intrusion into the driver's space was minimal, and all leg and foot injury measures were low.

Technical measurements for this test

Measures of occupant compartment intrusion on driver side

Test ID CEF0904
Footwell intrusion
Footrest (cm) 8
Left (cm) 8
Center (cm) 8
Right (cm) 4
Brake pedal (cm) 7
Instrument panel rearward movement
Left (cm) 1
Right (cm) 1
Steering column movement
Upward (cm) 3
Rearward (cm) -1
A-pillar rearward movement (cm) 1

Driver injury measures

Test ID CEF0904
Head
HIC-15 295
Peak gs at hard contact 25
Neck
Tension (kN) 1.2
Extension bending moment (Nm) 19
Maximum Nij 0.23
Chest maximum compression (mm) 33
Legs
Femur force - left (kN) 1.7
Femur force - right (kN) 1.1
Knee displacement - left (mm) 0
Knee displacement - right (mm) 0
Maximum tibia index - left 0.38
Maximum tibia index - right 0.71
Tibia axial force - left (kN) 1.7
Tibia axial force - right (kN) 2.2
Foot acceleration (g)
Left 61
Right 45

How the moderate overlap front test is conducted

Side: original test

Rating applies to 2006-11 models

Tested vehicle: 2009 Honda Civic LX 2-door with standard front and rear head curtain airbags and standard front seat-mounted torso airbags

The Honda Civic was redesigned for the 2006 model year.

Overall evaluation
Structure and safety cage
Driver injury measures
Head/neck
Torso
Pelvis/leg
Driver head protection
Rear passenger injury measures
Head/neck
Torso
Pelvis/leg
Rear passenger head protection

View of the vehicle and barrier just after the crash test.

View of the vehicle after the crash with door removed, showing the side airbags and damage to the occupant compartment.

Smeared greasepaint shows where the driver dummy's head was protected from being hit by hard structures by the side airbags.

Smeared greasepaint shows where the rear passenger dummy’s head was protected by the side airbag.

Technical measurements for this test

Measures of occupant compartment intrusion on driver side

Test ID CES0907
B-pillar to longitudinal centerline of driver's seat (cm) -17.0
Negative numbers indicate the amount by which the crush stopped short of the seat centerline.

Driver injury measures

Test ID CES0907
Head HIC-15 527
Neck
Tension (kN) 1.1
Compression (kN) 0.0
Shoulder
Lateral deflection (mm) 49
Lateral force (kN) 1.5
Torso
Maximum deflection (mm) 49
Average deflection (mm) 44
Maximum deflection rate (m/s) 4.19
Maximum viscous criterion (m/s) 0.92
Pelvis
Iliac force (kN) 3.1
Acetabulum force (kN) 2.5
Combined force (kN) 5.5
Left femur
L-M force (kN) 1.5
L-M moment (Nm) 134
A-P moment (Nm) 30

Passenger injury measures

Test ID CES0907
Head HIC-15 382
Neck
Tension (kN) 0.9
Compression (kN) 0.0
Shoulder
Lateral deflection (mm) 32
Lateral force (kN) 1.4
Torso
Maximum deflection (mm) 32
Average deflection (mm) 27
Maximum deflection rate (m/s) 3.09
Maximum viscous criterion (m/s) 0.57
Pelvis
Iliac force (kN) 0.7
Acetabulum force (kN) 2.4
Combined force (kN) 3.0
Left femur
L-M force (kN) 0.3
L-M moment (Nm) 71
A-P moment (Nm) 35

How the side crash test is conducted

Head restraints & seats

Seat type: All seats AHR (except Si)

Overall evaluation
Dynamic rating
Seat/head restraint geometry
Technical measurements for this test
Seat type All seats AHR (except Si)
Geometry
Backset (mm) 32
Distance below top of head (mm) 35
Seat design parameters
Pass/fail Pass
Max T1 acceleration (g) 12.3
Head contact time (ms) 60
Force rating 1
Neck forces
Max neck shear force (N) 30
Max neck tension (N) 545

How the head restraint & seat test is conducted
Currently, IIHS tests apply only to front seats.