While regulators have been testing crash impacts for decades, there’s a dearth of data on women, who face a higher risk of ...

The next time you board a commercial flight and are told how to sit in the brace position for an emergency landing, consider this: did you know that international plane safety testing only requires ...

WASHINGTON — Women are finally getting a dummy of their own. The Transportation Department rolled out the design for a “first-of-its-kind” advanced female crash test dummy, aimed at improving safety ...

The U.S. government on Thursday released a new crash test dummy design that advocates believe will help make cars safer for women. The Department of Transportation will consider using the dummy in the ...

One of the nation's most closely watched auto safety ratings could soon get even tougher. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which conducts rigorous car tests and issues ratings that ...

On shelves at a Humanetics facility in Huron, Ohio, skulls stare from their eyeless sockets, shiny and silver. Around a corner, a rack is filled with squishy, peach-toned arms, legs, torsos and butts.

Research shows that women are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in head-on car crashes compared with men in the same crashes. The problem stems from a simple oversight that’s persisted for ...