Euro NCAP is sponsoring The Industrial Automobile Security Award on the Motor Dealer Industrial Trade Awards held on the NEC in 29 April.
Since 1997, Euro NCAP has carried out security assessments and testing on new automobiles, providing shoppers, policymakers and trade life like and unbiased insights into the protection efficiency of automobiles offered in Europe.
Backed by a number of European Governments, motoring, shopper and insurance coverage organisations and supported by a community of laboratories throughout Europe, Euro NCAP has turn into a catalyst for encouraging and delivering vital security enhancements to new car design.
For shoppers, Euro NCAP’s star score has turn into synonymous with a quest for a safer automotive. In 2024, Euro NCAP entered a brand new area: the business car sector and launched the outcomes of its first Safer Vehicles Testing Programme.
In keeping with NCAP, within the UK final 12 months, heavy vans represented virtually 5.8% of all site visitors however 14.3% of all fatalities.
“Lorries are usually not concerned in collisions extra ceaselessly than different car sorts however when they’re concerned, a fatality is extra seemingly.
“Euro NCAP believes that encouraging commercial vehicles manufacturers, by rewarding safety improvements with a star rating will incentivise good performance, allow optimisation of operational safety and cost as well as improve truck safety. Euro NCAP intends to create a market where the safest choice of vehicle is the most profitable one,” it added.
