FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Statement by Cathy Chase, President
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates)
On Including Pedestrian Crashworthiness Tests in NCAP
(Washington, D.C-May 24, 2023) “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) recent request for comments from the public on including pedestrian crashworthiness tests in the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) is laudable as deaths involving vulnerable roads users remain far too high. However, despite numerous proposals over many years, NHTSA has failed to substantially update NCAP although it is badly outdated. While the U.S. NCAP was the first in the world of its kind at its inception in 1979, it now lags far behind other countries’ NCAPs to the disservice and danger of U.S. consumers. It is crucial that NHTSA finally finish this important work.”
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