Peugeot
206
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Pedestrian test rating |
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Test Scores: Front 11(69%) Side 14(78%) Overall 25(74%) Pedestrian 11(31%)
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The 206
is a small car that gives an all-round performance
protecting the adult occupants. The structure provided a
safety cage with the driver’s door frame showed only
minor distortion. There are safety concerns over the
fitting of a manual switch to turn off the passenger’s
airbag. However the 3 year-old’s child restraint failed
to contain the child’s head in both front and side
impact. Also the 1½-half-year old’s restraint was
forward facing and did not protect the child’s neck in
the frontal test. |
Impact
Protection
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| Driver
Front Impact |
Passenger
Front Impact |
Driver
Side Impact |
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Frontal
Impact
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| The
206 maintains the occupant’s survival space in the
frontal crash. The front seat belts are fitted with
pretensioners which are designed to limit forward movement
in the event of a crash. Load limiters are also fitted but
despite this the passenger’s chest loading was a little
high. Only a simple two point static belt was fitted in
the centre rear seat, which can cause severe spinal and
abdominal injuries. The knee impact area had hard areas
which would give higher loads than those experienced in
the test if knees impacted directly onto them. There was
some padding which will help to spread the loads, although
this was not sufficient to remove all worries of damaging
knees and upper legs. The extent of the movement of the
brake pedal rearwards gives rise to an increased risk of
injury to the driver’s feet. |
Side
Impact
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a car without side-impact airbags the 206 is well designed
and has done well to give a low risk of injury for all the
body regions. The dummy’s head contacted the front edge
of the central door pillar as well as the bottom edge of
the window, but without sufficient force to cause concern
over serious injury. The abdomen had some loading from the
arm rest and the pelvis was contacted by a foam block in
the door trim. |
Child
Restraint
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passenger airbag is standard and Peugeot have addressed
the risk to children in rear facing child restraints in
the front by fitting a switch so that the airbag can be
turned off with the ignition key. The consequence of not
setting the switch correctly could be fatal and the
warning of this condition was not foolproof. The removable
warning labels had no text to explain the risk of serious
injury or death to a child in a rear facing restraint. The
child restraints were both forward facing and provided
protection in the frontal test, except that for the 1½-half-year
old the neck loads were high which is a common failing for
forward facing seats. In the side impact the seats were
also good performers, except that the 3-year-old’s seat
did not keep the child’s head contained within the seat
wings. |
Pedestrian
Protection
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pedestrian protection score come almost entirely from the
adult and child impact assessments which is the same as
most of the cars we have tested in this class. However two
of the leg impact sites were also graded as giving weak
protection. |
Model
history and safety equipment
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206 was introduced in Sept 1998. The 2000 model year car
features dual frontal airbags, front safety belt
pretensioners and load limiters & ISOFIX anchorages on
the front passenger seat. |
| Make,
model and hand of drive |
Peugeot
206 1.3 XR Presence LHD |
| Body
type |
3-door
hatchback |
| Model
year |
2000 |
| Kerb
weight |
943
kg |
| VIN
and date when rating applies |
VF32AWJ2T41093544 |
| Cars
built on the same platform |
None |
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