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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Obese people are 78 percent more likely to die in a car crash. — -- Crash-test dummies are undergoing a makeover to reflect the thicker waistlines and larger rear ends of Americans. “Studies show ...

Women are 17% more likely to die in car crashes than men, but there’s a way to improve those odds and save lives, U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth contends. The Hoffman Estates Democrat and Republican ...