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I'm a dog trainer and frequently travel with my two belgian shepherds. I have a 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander. Admittedly, I bought two of these plastic kennels because they fit snugly into the trunk space of my SUV and the door latch was secure enough to keep my houdini female from opening it herself and getting out. I have ALWAYS chosen plastic kennels over wire or letting the dogs be loose in the car for safety reasons. These were made for travel, wire crates were not. Last week, I saw a post from an animal rescuer friend who got into a car accident with three dogs in her car of various sizes, all in wire crates. After the accident, all three dogs were loose, the crates had fallen apart and combusted on itself, and one dog suffered spinal injuries from being thrown. Fast forward a few days after I shared that post on facebook as a precautionary tale, I got into a car accident myself, with one of my dogs in the kennel/car with me. The impact location was right where his crate was, near the back quarter panel. The impact was fast and hard enough to spin the car around 360. Both my back tires were off on an angle, side airbags deployed, all of it. I walked away with severe bruising all over. My dog ended up with a dislocated hip. I truly, truly believe, that the plastic kennel fit snugly together in a tight space saved him from much worse injury. He could have been thrown, he could have had broken bones. Please reconsider how you travel with your pets and look into a good quality travel kennel, not just for flying your pet.