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Description: Adrian Lund spent much of his career getting automakers to build vehicles that would protect their occupants from serious injury in a crash. After a severe collision last summer, the retired president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute in all likelihood owes his life to the improvements he helped usher in. Lund was on his way to Savannah, Georgia, early one Saturday in August 2021. He had gone just 15 miles from his northern Virginia home when a car traveling the wrong way on the Interstate 95 express lanes collided with his. The frontal collision in the left lane sent Lund’s car spinning and rolling before coming to rest upside down on the right shoulder. Lund estimates he was traveling 60 or 65 mph. The other car was going about 50. “This was a high-speed crash, one that probably 10 years ago, I wouldn’t be here to talk to you about it,” he said recently. Full story at go.iihs.org/Adrian-Lund-crash Subscribe: go.iihs.org/subscribe View Our Website: iihs.org Follow us: Twitter: twitter.com/IIHS_autosafety Facebook: facebook.com/iihs.org Instagram: go.iihs.org/instagram LinkedIn: go.iihs.org/linkedin