Cars: Sales
Commons · Question 61955 · Tabled 23 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Charlotte Nichols
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to ensure that (a) all cars sold in the UK must have had safety tests undertaken on them that include specifically-female crash dummies in both the driver and passenger seats and
Answer
Answered by Lilian Greenwood, 1 Jul 2025
The latest international vehicle regulations covering frontal impact protection developed under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) currently use a crash test dummy representative of a female occupant in the front passenger seat. The...