Rest in Peace the departed souls. Prayers for the family and the victims.
Automobile safety features are not there to guarantee a life but these surely reduces the severity and outcome.
The Side impact crashes are very deadly, reason being there is not enough space between the occupants in the car and the impact. Doors and with major portion taken by the window in the door.. literally there is nothing as such. Protecting people in side crashes is challenging because the sides of vehicles have relatively little space to absorb energy and protect occupants, unlike the fronts and rears, which have enough crumple zones. New technologies like side impact high strength beams in the doors, high strength steel specially for the B pillar and side air bags are very much important now a days. Head injuries are the major cause of deaths in the side crashes.
The problem is there is no safety policy or agency who should look in this matter. NO guidelines at all and the manufacturers are really NOT bothered as well. The same cars which comes with minimum required safety standards overseas are not even meeting those in our country.. Reason NO check & Balance. So I will not blame just the manufacturer. Government need to implement some policy and then a neutral independent testing agency. Unless this becomes reality we will keep on seeing poorly manufactured vehicles.