1997 Honda Odyssey

minivan

1997 Honda Odyssey Minivan
1996 Honda Odyssey shown

Crashworthiness

Rating overview
Moderate overlap front: original test

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 1995-98 models

Tested vehicle: 1996 Honda Odyssey LX passenger van

The Honda Odyssey was introduced in the 1995 model year, and the Isuzu Oasis was introduced in 1996 (the Oasis continued through the 1999 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
Dummy movement was reasonably well controlled. After moving forward into the airbag, the dummy's head moved to the left, sliding off the airbag toward the driver door as the steering wheel moved upward.

Action shot taken during the frontal offset crash test.

Post-crash test shot.

The position of the steering wheel after the offset test shows the excessive vertical movement that occurred during the impact.

Technical measurements for this test

Measures of occupant compartment intrusion on driver side

Test ID CF96021
Footwell intrusion
Footrest (cm) 32
Left (cm) 38
Center (cm) 37
Right (cm) 33
Brake pedal (cm) 32
Instrument panel rearward movement
Left (cm) 13
Right (cm) 15
Steering column movement
Upward (cm) 20
Rearward (cm) 5
A-pillar rearward movement (cm) 9

Driver injury measures

Test ID CF96021
Head
HIC-15 173
Peak gs at hard contact no contact
Neck
Tension (kN) 1.6
Extension bending moment (Nm) 30
Maximum Nij 0.39
Chest maximum compression (mm) 37
Legs
Femur force - left (kN) 3.3
Femur force - right (kN) 2.9
Knee displacement - left (mm) 5
Knee displacement - right (mm) 5
Maximum tibia index - left 0.92
Maximum tibia index - right 2.22
Tibia axial force - left (kN) 1.7
Tibia axial force - right (kN) 3.8
Foot acceleration (g)
Left 63
Right 86

How the moderate overlap front test is conducted

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