Used Car Safety Ratings (UCSR)
Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) analyses serious injury and fatal road crashes in Australia and New Zealand. The Used Car Safety Ratings (UCSR) project annually reports vehicle crash safety ratings based on the crash analysis carried out by MUARC. The ratings cover:
Crashworthiness – the relative safety of vehicles in preventing severe injury to their own drivers in crashes.
Aggressivity – the serious injury risk vehicles pose to other road users with which they collide. This includes unprotected road users such as pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists and driver of the other vehicle.
Total secondary safety index – integrates into one measure the combined crashworthiness and aggressivity performance of a vehicle.
The data analysed so far covers 5.4 million road users involved in reported crashes from 1987-2009.
Used Car Safety Ratings Buyer's Guide 2012 for Passenger vehicles built 1996-2010