The first crash test dummy model representing a woman was designed in 2011. The problem was that its specific body type was not very representative (corresponding to only 5 percent of women).

A U.S. company that manufactures crash test dummies has developed a new, bigger, model to better represent the third of Americans who are considered obese. The new model mimics a 270-pound driver ...

Although women face the threat of more injury risks in vehicle wrecks, the crash test dummies used in U.S. safety tests are designed almost entirely around the body of a man (AP video: Mike ...

Many of the crash test dummies used today are based on U.S. military men from the 1960s. "So it's a very fit-shaped male," said Becky Mueller, senior safety engineer at the Insurance Institute for ...

OTTAWA – Carleton University students have designed a type of crash test dummy not seen before: a cyclist, designed to go over the handlebars at 25 kilometres an hour.

OTTAWA – The good news is the dummy is stronger than the bike. After two test runs in a mock bicycle crash, the bike was in pieces, but the incalculably valuable dummy was intact, and ready to ...