Hosted in partnership with the Automobile Association of South Africa, Global NCAP’s second Forum coincided with Safety 2026, the 16th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion.

We are now pleased to confirm that the Toyota Starlet has improved from a zero-star to a four-star rating for adult occupant protection in our latest #SaferCarsForAfrica crash test results.

In the second edition of Global NCAP’s Women in Safety series, we sit down with Fangfang to unpack what she’s observed from the frontline.

This week masses of public health experts, researchers and policymakers from around the world descended on Cape Town for Safety 2026, the 16th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion.

African nations joined forces in Accra last month to bolster motorcycle helmet safety across the continent.

Between 2011 and 2025, WHO data reveals that the global rate of road traffic deaths fell 21% while the total number of road traffic deaths fell by 9%.

As Advocacy Ambassador of Global NCAP, Meera will extend her life-changing work in championing the organisation to democratise vehicle safety across low and middle-income countries in particular.

Our Seatbelt Safety Declaration is a call on global policymakers, regulators and manufacturers to recognise and act on the life-saving impact of seatbelts, child restraint systems and occupant-protection technologies.

Global NCAP officially launched its Forum for Safer Mobility in New York and the first subject to take to the stage was ISA.

Global NCAP is proud to launch Women in Safety, a new editorial series celebrating the women whose leadership, expertise and determination are shaping the future of road safety.

Across the G20 half a million lives saved by 2030. Increasing to an astonishing 2.7 million lives that could be saved by 2050.

Euro NCAP reveals shocking lack of protection from rear safety guards on masses of trailers and trucks across the EU and UK, contributing to hundreds of road deaths every year.

The Kia Sonet and GWM Haval Jolion, two of South Africa’s best-selling cars, have been found to fall short on safety, following Global NCAP’s latest #SaferCarsForAfrica crash test results.

Global NCAP is proud to be launching a new international event platform that will bridge the public and private sector to map the way forward for safe, sustainable mobility.

The WHO and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development are inviting journalists across Africa to shape the continent’s first standards for reporting on road safety.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has saved nearly 50,000 lives since the launch of its crash testing programme in 1995, according to a new study from the US nonprofit.

Now in its eighth year, London Climate Action Week is Europe's largest city-wide climate gathering, bringing together nearly 50,000 participants across more than 700 events.

Performance has become one of the most dominant languages of modern automotive advertising, according to new research from the IIHS.

The UNRSF has published its 2025 Annual Impact Report, highlighting the global reach of its road safety programmes as the Decade of Action for Road Safety enters its final stretch. 

Repeat speeding offenders in New York City will now be required to have speed-limiting technology fitted to their vehicles following the passage of the Stop Super Speeders Act.

The outgoing version of the Toyota Starlet has received a zero-star rating for adult occupant protection from Global NCAP in the #SaferCarsforAfrica test results.

Global NCAP is proud to have brought vehicle safety standards to the forefront of the conversation at the UN’s interactive multi-stakeholder hearing on road safety.

A global study has revealed that capping vehicle size, accelerating electrification and increasing a modal shift could cut liquid fuel demand by up to 85% by 2050.

Global NCAP is proud to have joined an Experts Connect session hosted by the UN Road Safety Fund, spotlighting seat belts as one of the simplest and most powerful tools to save lives.

Africa has adopted its first continent-wide, legally binding road safety framework, marking a major step toward tackling the region’s road safety crisis.

On April 20, NCAP leaders, government authorities, industry, academia and the media gathered in Tianjin, China, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of C-NCAP.



Global NCAP is delighted to continue its partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies under a newly announced $350 million investment unveiled by Michael Bloomberg.

London has unveiled an ambitious new road safety plan aimed at accelerating progress towards its Vision Zero goal of eliminating deaths and serious injuries on city streets by 2041.

Road safety leaders from across the Asia-Pacific convened in Manila for the FIA Safe Mobility 4 All & 4 Life programme, accelerating efforts to tackle one of the region’s most pressing public health challenges.

Euro NCAP has announced that Allianz, one of the world’s largest insurance companies, has joined its Safer Trucks programme as an Associate Member.