Cars have gotten safer over the decades, but more still needs to be done and the development of female crash dummies may ensure greater safety of women in the U.S. Women are on average more likely to ...

The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) has been around for nearly 30 years. Since its first evaluation in 1997 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Crash test dummies: You know them from the iconic public service announcements. Over the years, they have contributed to making cars safer for everyone. But a revealing new ...

It's well established that U.S. crash test dummies don't reflect the population. While female crash test dummies are used in other parts of the world, our crash tests still only use a dummy ...

Women make up more than half of U.S. drivers, but are 73% more likely to suffer serious injuries in a crash than men, and are 17% more likely to be killed, according to the National Highway Traffic ...

FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan (AP) - Maria Weston Kuhn had one lingering question about the car crash that forced her to have emergency surgery during a vacation in Ireland: Why did she and her mother ...

One company is taking note of America's obesity issue by manufacturing "overweight" crash test dummies. Humanetics is a Plymouth, Michigan-based company that has been developing crash test dummies ...

THE UK’s cheapest hybrid car has suffered a critical failure in Euro NCAP’s crash test. The safety body has released a ...

The crash test dummy currently used in NHTSA five-star testing is called the Hybrid III, which was developed in 1978 and modeled after a 5-foot-9, 171-pound man (the average size in the 1970s but ...

“It was a head-on crash and they were closest to the point of contact," said Kuhn, now 25, who missed a semester of college to recover from the 2019 collision that caused her seat belt to slide off ...