Howsafeisyourcar.com.au provides free, independent safety information on new and used cars based on laboratory crash testing and real world crash data. It is designed and maintained by the Transport Accident Commission and is part of the Safe Vehicles pillar of Towards Zero – Victoria’s approach to road safety with a long term goal of zero deaths and serious injuries on our roads.
Buying safe cars helps us get to our goal of zero. If every vehicle could be upgraded to the safest in its class, serious trauma would be reduced by a third.
Vehicle safety ratings are sourced from the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) and Used Car Safety Ratings (UCSR), which are supported by automobile clubs as well as Australian and New Zealand governments and transport authorities.
HowSafeisYourCar.com.au acknowledges the assistance of:
RACV VicRoads Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC)Australian Automobile Association NRMA (NSW) RACQ (QLD) Transport for NSWNZ Transport Agency (New Zealand) RAC Tasmania Department of Transport and Main Roads (Queensland) New Zealand Automobile Association Inc Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (South Australia) RAA (South Australia) Road Safety Commission (WA) Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) Australian Government Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development State Insurance Regulatory Authority (NSW) Automobile Association of the Northern Territory Insurance Australia Group (IAG)
Car safety feature information provided on this web site is supplied by Automotive Data Services Pty Ltd (RedBook).
The latest UCSR are based on statistics collected from car crashes in Australia and New Zealand between 1990 and 2017, where someone was killed or seriously injured. Over eight million police reported crashes were analysed in the latest UCSR.
