Are Old (Classic) Cars Safer Than New Cars? I was suprised!

I have often come across people saying " I would much rather be in a 1959 XXX (insert random classic car here) than a modern car in a crash." After all, all that steel would crush a modern car right?

I kind of thought that too.

My thought process was like this.
Sure modern cars have airbags, seatbelts, and a wide range of other safety measures but they are built to take impacts from other newer cars full of plastic. They would surely be destroyed if the impact was from an olde style METAL BEAST!

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