Global NCAP works to promote safer vehicles and encourage car manufacturers to improve safety standards. It supports New Car Assessment Programs around the world and aims to harmonize global vehicle safety regulations. The UN has set a goal to reduce global road deaths by half by 2020 through improved policies and vehicle safety standards, including requiring electronic stability control on all new vehicles. Global NCAP is working with emerging NCAPs and a new "Stop the Crash" initiative to promote life-saving technologies and hold manufacturers accountable for unsafe vehicles.

1. Democratising Car Safety
David Ward
Secretary General
Global New Car Assessment Programme
Crash.tech 2016 Kongress
19-20 April 2016
Munich

2. NCAP For Safer Cars…Worldwide
New Car Assessment Programmes
(NCAPs) promote a market for safety
by raising awareness of the car buying
public and encouraging manufacturers
to build safer vehicles.
There are now nine NCAPs active in
Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America
and the USA. Global NCAP was created
in 2011 and aims to:
• Offer support to NCAPs in rapidly motorising regions by offering technical support
guidance and quality assurance.
• Provide a platform for cooperation for NCAPs and like organisations around the
world to share best practice, and exchange information.
• Support the implementation of the Global Plan for the UN Decade of Action 2011-
2020 and the Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

3. Global Road Safety Challenge – The Urgency of Now
Over 3000 people are killed in road crashes
every day. Around 3% of GDP is lost worldwide
and road crashes are the leading cause of death
of young people.
Low and middle income countries account for
90% of global road deaths and have fatality rates
twice that of high income nations.
These countries are also motorising rapidly and
account for about half of new car production
and sales worldwide.
Over the next fifteen years the global vehicle fleet
is expected to double to above 2 million. This
unprecedented experiment in global motorisation
represents a huge road safety challenege.

4. On 25 September 2015 the UN adopted a
new agenda of Global Goals for Sustainable
Development.
Road safety is included in goals 3 and 11 for
health and cities with a target to:
Halve the number of global deaths
and injuries from road crashes by
2020.
It is the UN’s strongest ever road safety
commitment and will challenge all
Member States to strengthen their road
injury prevention policies and plans.
To meet the new target will require major
improvements in fatality rates per 100,000.
.
Global Goals for Sustainable Development and Road Safety
High Income Countries: from 8.7 per
deaths per 100,000 in 2010 to 4 by 2020
Middle Income Countries: from 20.1 per
deaths per 100,000 in 2010 to 7 by 2020
Low Income Countries: from 18.3 per
deaths per 100,000 in 2010 to 12 by 2020

5. The new UN target has been endorsed by the 2nd
Global High Level Conference on Road Safety held in
Brasilia (18-19 November 2015) and also by the UN
General Assembly in a new resolution on road safety
adopted on April 15.
On vehicle safety the Brasilia Declaration and the
General Assembly recommends the adoption of:
Policies and measures to implement United Nations
vehicle safety regulations or equivalent national
standards to ensure that all new motor vehicles,
meet applicable minimum regulations for occupant
and other road users protection, with seat belts, air
bags and active safety systems as standard.
This is the clearest and strongest commitment made
to vehicle safety made by UN Member States.
Brasilia Declaration and UN General Assembly Resolution

6. The UN Decade was launched in 2011 with the aim
to ‘stabilise and then reduce’ road fatalities. The
Decade is supported by a Global Plan with five
pillars of action:
1. Building Management Capacity
2. Encouraging Safer User Behaviour
3. Building Safer Vehicles
4. Building Safer Roads
5. Improving Post Crash Care
The Global Plan recommended vehicle related
measures include; application of minimum crash
test standards; encouragement of electronic
stability control and anti-lock brakes on
motorcycles; and promoting NCAPs in all world
regions.
UN Decade of Action for Road
Safety

7. UN Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations
The Global Plan supports wider application
of the most important global standards
available under the 1958and 1998
agreements of the UN World Forum for
Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations (WP29).*
These are:
Reg. 14 Seat belt anchorages
Reg. 16 Safety belts & restraints
Reg. 94 Frontal collision
Reg. 95 Lateral collision
Reg.13H (GTR 8) Electronic stability control
Reg.127 (GTR 9) Pedestrian protection
Reg. 44/129 Child restraints
*or equivalent national standards (eg: FVMSSs)

8. The 2015 Status Report:
•Reveals “worrying data” showing that
only 40 out of a total of 193 UN Member
States fully apply the seven most
important UN safety regulations and these
are overwhelmingly high-income
countries.
•Says “there is an urgent need for these
minimum vehicle standards to be
implemented by every country”.
•Warns that “regulations helping to
protect occupants withstand front and
side impact crashes are poorly
implemented globally” and also calls for
mandatory fitment of electronic stability
control.
WHO Global Road Safety Status Report 2015 - Vehicle Safety

9. Global NCAP’s Road Map for Safer Cars was
launched in March 2015 and :
•Calls for the combination of stronger
consumer information and universal
application of minimum UN standards for
crash protection and avoidance.
•Ten key recommendations including the
application to all new cars of the UN’s front,
side and pedestrian impact crash tests and the
anti-skid system, electronic stability control,
by 2020 at the latest.
•Global NCAP updated the Road Map in
November 2015 to include Automatic
Emergency Braking and anti-lock brakes in
motorcycles.
Democratizing Car Safety: A Road Map for Safer Cars 2020

11. The UN GA Resolution also mandates the creation of
a road safety trust fund to support investment in
capacity building initiatives. The challenge is to find
additional resources.
Global NCAP is proposing that G20 governments
support a 10% surcharge on all vehicle recall and
regulatory non compliance fines. In 2013-2015 OEMs
were fined over $168 million in recall fines in the US
alone.
A modest surcharge could help support:
•Regulatory Harmonisation (WP29)
•Training and Capacity Building for Governments
•Independent safety testing by emerging NCAPs and
related research
Innovative Funding for Road Safety

12. Emerging Market NCAPs
Global NCAP gives financial and technical
support to emerging NCAPs in Latin America
and South East Asia. We have also launched a
‘Safer Cars for India’ project.
Both Latin NCAP and ASEAN NCAP have now
tested over 50 models. Despite weak regulatory
systems in these regions both programmes
have seen a rapid increase in the availability of
four and five star cars. In India there has also
been progress with the Government committing
to introduce crash test standards and an NCAP.
In 2016 Global NCAP, in association with
Consumers International, will be promoting the
‘Speak up for Safety’ campaign to spotlight cars
and manufacturers that continue to sell cars
that score zero stars in NCAPs.
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13. Better to Stop the Crash than Have One!
#Stop the Crash is a new global initiative to promote
the most important crash avoidance systems and also
tyre safety.
#Stop the Crash partners include the ADAC, Autoliv, Bosch,
Continental, Denso, Thatcham, ZF-TRW, and the Towards
Zero Foundation.
#Stop the Crash will promote electronic stability control,
autonomous emergency braking ,and anti-lock brakes on
motorcycles.
#Stop the Crash was launched on 17 November in Brasilia
prior to the Global High Level Conference on Road
Safety and feature demonstrations for VIPs and the media.
#Stop the Crash events in 2016 will be held in Chile in June
and in Malaysia in November.

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