Democratising Car Safety

David Ward Secretary GeneralGlobal New Car Assessment Programme

Crash.tech 2016 Kongress19-20 April 2016Munich

NCAP For Safer Cars…Worldwide

New Car Assessment Programmes (NCAPs) promote a market for safetyby raising awareness of the car buyingpublic 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.

Global Road Safety Challenge – The Urgency of Now

Over 3000 people are killed in road crashes every day. Around 3% of GDP is lost worldwideand road crashes are the leading cause of deathof young people.

Low and middle income countries account for 90% of global road deaths and have fatality ratestwice that of high income nations.

These countries are also motorising rapidly andaccount for about half of new car production and sales worldwide.

Over the next fifteen years the global vehicle fleetis expected to double to above 2 million. This unprecedented experiment in global motorisationrepresents a huge road safety challenege.

On 25 September 2015 the UN adopted a new agenda of Global Goals for SustainableDevelopment.

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 safetycommitment and will challenge allMember States to strengthen their roadinjury prevention policies and plans.

To meet the new target will require majorimprovements in fatality rates per 100,000.

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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

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

The UN Decade was launched in 2011 with the aimto ‘stabilise and then reduce’ road fatalities. TheDecade is supported by a Global Plan with fivepillars of action:

1. Building Management Capacity2. Encouraging Safer User Behaviour3. Building Safer Vehicles4. 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

UN Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations

The Global Plan supports wider applicationof 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 anchoragesReg. 16 Safety belts & restraintsReg. 94 Frontal collisionReg. 95 Lateral collisionReg.13H (GTR 8) Electronic stability controlReg.127 (GTR 9) Pedestrian protectionReg. 44/129 Child restraints

*or equivalent national standards (eg: FVMSSs)

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

Global NCAP’s Road Map for Safer Cars waslaunched 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

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

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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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 RoadSafety 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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