Citroën BASALT rocks 4-star BNCAP rating
- Gobar NCRAP
- Oct 12, 2024
- 2 min read
The Citroen BASALT has been awarded 4 stars for adult and child protection by BNCAP. Due to the organisation's insistence on not providing comments to supplement the dummy visualisation, the rating may be interpreted in multiple ways.
In the frontal offset test, a Citroen BASALT with two belted instrumented dummies (Hybrid III 50th percentile male) in the front seats representing the median European adult male, was driven at 64km/h into a deformable barrier with 40% overlap, representing two similar cars crashing head-on but off-centre, each travelling at about 50km/h.
Dummy readings showed a low risk of serious skull fracture and neck shear, but protection of the driver's chest was deemed marginal. This could mean either:
dummy readings of chest compression indicated a moderate risk of serious rib fracture and inspection of the load paths revealed the passenger compartment had remained stable
OR
dummy readings of chest compression indicated a limited or moderate risk of serious rib fracture but inspection of the load paths revealed the passenger compartment could not be expected to reliably transfer greater loads without plastic deformation of the load paths
Hard structures behind the dashboard were deemed to pose a risk to the knees of occupants of different statures or positions, and Citroen did not (OR were not allowed to) demonstrate otherwise. There were moderately high torsional and compressive forces transmitted up the driver's left tibia.
In the side mobile barrier and pole tests, a 950kg cart representing a small car struck a stationary BASALT's driver door at 50km/h, and a BASALT on a sled was propelled laterally into a pole targeted at the driver's head at 29 km/h. With a belted side impact dummy (EuroSID) in the driver's seat representing a European adult male, dummy numbers showed a low risk of serious injury to all body regions in both tests.
The BASALT has two i-Size seating positions and three-point seatbelts in all seats. Protection of the 18 month-old and 3 year-old child dummies installed rearward-facing (using ISOFIX anchorages and supprt leg) in a Britax-Romer BabySafe and Dualfix respectively, was deemed largely good in the front and side barrier tests, but some region (head OR neck OR chest) of the 3-year-old child was not protected well in the frontal test.
Full results for the Citroen BASALT are on Bharat NCAP's website.
The BASALT's level of safety specification has also been deemed 'Recommended' by Gobar NCRAP in the past.
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