Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The crumple zones of an automobile are a structural feature designed to compress during an accident to absorb energy from an impact. Typically, crumple zones are located in the front part of the vehicle, in order to absorb the impact from a head-on collision, though they may also be found on other parts of the vehicle as well. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.