We’re writing to thank US Senator Patty Murray for her dedication to enhancing automobile security requirements for girls.
Many individuals do not know this, however our vehicles are solely crash examined with male our bodies in thoughts. That is proper: Crash assessments are solely required to make use of mannequins, and as a consequence of bodily variations, this places ladies, youngsters, and anybody not formed like a median man in danger. Based on research, this prices lives yearly. We’re deeply involved about what this implies for America’s daughters, whose security has not been thought-about within the testing.
Late. Murray has been a frontrunner within the struggle for equality in automobile security testing. She has constantly supported initiatives to get the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration, the auto security regulator, to make use of mannequins that signify extra physique varieties. Due to her assist and others in Congress, together with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, we’re assured that our considerations will lastly be heard and start to be addressed.
Thanks, Senator Murray, on your dedication to creating our roads safer for everybody.
Beth Brooke and Susan Molinari, co-chairs, VERITY (Automobile Fairness Guidelines in Transportation) Now
