Safety

Though its sister model, the S40 sedan, earned good crash-test scores from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the wagon hasn't been crash tested. Unfortunately, differences in weight and construction mean we can't assume the same crash performance in the V50.
The wealth of standard safety features includes side-impact and side curtain airbags, all-disc antilock brakes, an electronic stability system with traction control and a tire pressure monitoring system. Advanced options include the Blind Spot Information System, which lights an indicator just inboard of either of the S40's side mirrors when a car occupies its corresponding blind spot.
See also:
Accessory installation
• We strongly recommend that Volvo owners
install only genuine, Volvo-approved
accessories, and that accessory installations
be performed only by a trained and
qualified Volvo service technici ...
Phone book
The hands-free system uses two phone books (one with the cell phone's list of
contacts and one with contacts saved directly in the infotainment system), which
are combined to form one phone bo ...
Front airbag deployment
The front airbags are designed to deploy during certain frontal or front-angular
collisions, impacts, or decelerations, depending on the crash severity, angle,
speed and object impacted. The ...
