Two cars built for the Indian market, the Volkswagen Taigun and Skoda Kushaq, have been awarded top ratings for adult and child occupant safety in the first round of demanding new Global New Car Assessment Programme (Global NCAP) crash test requirements. The independent consumer crash test initiative is supported by the FIA Foundation.
A campaign to promote anti-lock braking system (ABS) crash avoidance technology for motorcycles in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region has been launched by a coalition led by the Towards Zero Foundation and including the FIA Foundation.
Moldova has taken an important step to improve road safety with new low-speed legislation to protect vulnerable road users, advocated by the FIA Foundation’s partner the Automobile Club of Moldova (ACM) and supported through the FIA Foundation’s Advocacy Hub.
A road safety campaign created by a University of the Arts London (UAL) student is featuring on prominent London billboards seen by more than 5 million road users in an initiative supported by FIA Foundation, alongside Transport for London, Zurich Insurance and Ocean Outdoors.
A new report, the first to gather and analyse data on walking and cycling from highly diverse contexts in all 54 African countries, has been published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and the Walk21 Foundation, the development of which was been supported by the FIA Foundation.
National and local governments in Vietnam have been awarded two prestigious international road safety awards - the Vision Zero for Youth Award 2022 and the Prince Michael International Road Traffic Safety Award 2020 - for work in Pleiku City at a special award ceremony in Hanoi, supported by the FIA Foundation.
The Honda WR-V has received one star for its poor safety provisions, says the Latin America New Car Assessment Programme (Latin NCAP), while the Brazilian-made Volkswagen Nivus achieved a five-star rating, only the second ever awarded. The independent consumer crash test initiative is supported by the FIA Foundation.