Though women face more injury risks in vehicle crashes, the crash test dummies used in U.S. safety tests are designed almost ...

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 sustain serious injuries while her ...

Ultimate Crash Test is a PBS special that hopes to achieve two things: first, they're using 100 dash cams to capture a multi-car pileup from every angle, so that they can put that data to use in ...

Crash figures The vast majority of partial self-driving vehicle crashes reported under the old NHTSA rules involved Teslas — more than 800 of a total 1,040 crashes in the past 12 months ...

Correction: A previous version of this story stated that some Level 2 automakers would be exempt from producing crash data. The NHTSA has clarified that it still requires Level 2 and ADS reporting ...

Fatal injuries in a crash are significantly higher the older a vehicle is, especially if it was made before 1984, according to the NHTSA. Crash test dummies played a pivotal role in creating the ...

Mazda has some of the best safety ratings with both the NHTSA and IIHS. In 2024, a number of its vehicle models (including the Mazda3, CX-30, CX-5, CX-90 PHEV, and CX-90 MHEV) met the NHTSA's ...

Safest Coupes and Convertibles 2025 Ford Mustang. Both the Ford Mustang coupe and convertible perform well in crash testing. The coupe received a five-star safety rating from NHTSA, and both ...

Frontal crash tests have also been updated over the years, and while certain models were retested, we only considered the original crash-test versions’ scores in our data.

“A friend of mine who helped out part-time on data acquisition back in the day, his main job was to run the camera system for a company similar to NHTSA, where they crash cars into the wall ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is sharing its list of model year 2025 vehicles selected for testing as part of the agency's 5-Star Safety Ratings under its New Car Assessment ...