If you’re anything like me, you have a totally healthy and not-at-all weird obsession with crash test videos. I’ve been scouring the internet for crash test videos since I was in middle school, so I was surprised when I recently came across a YouTube channel that lured me in with some crash footage I had never seen before. Naturally, being the well-adjusted human I am, I instantly dove down the rabbit hole and spent hours watching them. The CarPro1993 YouTube channel is uniquely addicting because it intermixes crash test footage from several different sources and time periods, so it makes it easy to totally nerd out and compare different generations of models to see how they evolved over time, all in one place. Click here to check out the channel.
The Highway Safety Act of 1970 established the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA with a mission to reduce deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes. NHTSA conducts and collects data from frontal crash tests, side impact crash tests, side pole impact tests, and rollover tests, but it’s often difficult to find any footage of these tests online. The CarPro1993 YouTube channel, however, has thousands of great crash test videos ranging from early NHTSA tests to vintage Euro and Latin NCAP tests to modern IIHS and NHTSA crash tests and crash scenario recreations.
Want to see why the Ford Pinto got such a bad reputation? There’s footage of it. Want to compare the difference between the first and second-generation BMW X3’s performance in a rear-end crash? You can do that, too. This channel has over 2,000 hard-to-find crash test videos of cars spanning from early 1960s to the newest vehicles to hit the market, including some surprising models like the Coda EV, Qvale Mangusta, and Subaru BRAT. Next time you pop a gummy or need to relax but don’t trust TikTok with your data, check out the CarPro1993 YouTube channel for some good old fashioned crash test footage. It’s oddly satisfying and you’re technically learning while you watch, so follow me down the rabbit hole to crash test video heaven.