”Our founders said: “Cars are driven by people – the guiding principle behind everything we make at Volvo, therefore, is and must remain safety.” Those values have never changed, and in 2008 we set out our vision – that by 2020 nobody should be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo car.”

They probably won’t reach this, but they worked hard towards it. For example:

- the V40 has a pedestrian airbag (https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...)

- they will cap car speed at 112mph (https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/287046-why-volvos-cappin...)

Also, Britain’s safest car is a Volvo that has sold over 50,000 units, but has seen no drivers or passengers killed inside it in the 16 years it has been on sale (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/15/britains-safest-...)

the full research report on this technology is here though. https://www.aaa.com/AAA/common/aar/files/Research-Report-Ped...

SUVs and trucks have a huge front end that can rip people in half or slam them under the car rather than have them roll up and off. I saw an SUV hit a deer and the poor thing exploded like a grenade.