The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is planning a $30 million expansion at its Ruckersville campus.
Chief administrative officer Joe Nolan tells The Daily Progress that the project includes a new, larger outdoor test track and a new indoor test track.
The institute is the home of the “crash-test dummy.”
“This expansion will allow insurers to continue to play a lead role in improving highway safety,” says Adrian Lund, IIHS president. “The facility will allow us to evaluate vehicle-based crash avoidance systems so we can encourage adoption of the most effective ones, just as our crash test program has encouraged state-of-the-art crashworthiness design.”
The expansion is expected to create 10 jobs. Also, about 30 people from the institute’s Northern Virginia headquarters are expected to relocate to Ruckersville.
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The above picture is a conceptual rendering of a new 5-acre covered outdoor track that will be used for crash avoidance testing. The new testing track will be part of the Institute’s $30 million expansion.
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