Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women make up more than half of U.S. drivers, but are 73% more likely to suffer serious injuries in a crash than men, and are 17% ...

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 ...

Nov. 21 (UPI) --The Department of Transportation has introduced new crash test dummies that have a specifically small female design, to "address the trend of higher injury rates for women than men in ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy unveiled on Thursday the advanced female crash test dummy, known as the THOR-05F, that could help close the staggering gap in injury rates between men and women.

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 ...

The U.S. government announced major design changes it wants to implement to make the female version of the vehicle crash test dummy more lifelike, potentially replacing a model used for decades that ...

Crash test dummies are effective but new research by Toyota and the University of Virginia aims to reduce pedestrian injuries using virtual models.

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.