Swedish team bids to cut women's deaths on road with new car-crash dummy

Researchers in Sweden presented the first car-crash dummy modelled on a female body: the "SET50F". The crash dummy is modelled after "the average female," with a narrower shoulder area and a wider hip area.   "The aim is to make better seats both for women and men," says research engineer Tommy Pettersson.

Tommy Pettersson, Research Engineer said "The muscles in the neck are weaker normally in a woman, so if you compare it with a male dummy, this neck is more flexible and has more movements if you perform exactly the same crash test at the same speed and acceleration. " "The aim, hopefully, is to make it possible to make better seats both for women and men. That’s the reason why we have created one man and one woman."

According to a 2019 study from the University of Virginia in the United States, women are 73-percent more likely than men to be injured in the event of a frontal collision.