This is just plain wrong. Car chassis are much better designed now with better grades of steel and better design for managing crash energy. Crash-safety standards have also gone way up in that time. See here:

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/watch-terrifyingly-bad-car-saf...

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a11201/why-cars-are-saf...